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I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.

- Brion James

Just Do It, Pick, Up, Accent

Larry Kasdan is a great director.

- Brion James

Director, Great Director, Larry

I'm big and a lot of the stars are smaller so if you're big and mean looking, you play bad guys. After Blade Runner, I was the meanest guy in Hollywood.

- Brion James

Play, Big, Smaller, Meanest

Blade Runner helped make my career. Everybody was in it. Who knew?

- Brion James

Career, Knew, Everybody, Runner

I could talk about Blade Runner forever.

- Brion James

Could, About, Blade Runner, Runner

I've never considered myself a leading man, don't look like one, don't want to be one.

- Brion James

Never, Like, Considered, Leading Man

My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.

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Movie, Theater, Dad, Movie Theater

I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees there is something redeemable about them. In other words, I don't want to do evil for evil's sake. I don't want to do Jason slasher movies. There's no point in that.

- Brion James

Play, Villain, Other, No Point

Producing is nothing more than bringing all the elements together, connecting people.

- Brion James

More, Producing, Bringing, Connecting

Work begets work.

- Brion James

Work, Begets

Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.

- Brion James

Business, Small, Play, Farm

The bad guys are the best parts.

- Brion James

Bad, Guys, Parts, Bad Guys

My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.

- Brion James

Deal, Accents, Gotta, Dialects

The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.

- Brion James

Want, About, Which, Genre

You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.

- Brion James

Comedy, Know, Pretty, Stand-Up Comedy

I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice.

- Brion James

Television, Over, Films, Television Shows

I was a different kind of kid, oversensitive and all that.

- Brion James

Kid, Kind, Different, Different Kind

I couldn't say no to jobs and I couldn't say no to drugs. I'd get high from a movie, I'd be somebody else because I didn't particularly like me, so long as I had a script in my hand, I was okay. As soon as the movie was over, I didn't know what to do.

- Brion James

Long, Movie, Had, Okay

I play out negative fantasies for people. I'm the guy people love to hate. And they always remember the bad guy.

- Brion James

Love, Play, Always, Negative

In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died.

- Brion James

Work, Doing, Everybody, Died

I prayed to God for help and I put myself in a recovery house called Studio 12. It was for people in the business and you didn't have to have any money to go, which was good because I was broke.

- Brion James

Business, Studio, Which, Broke

Since very early in my career, I have always did my own stunt fighting.

- Brion James

Career, Always, Very, Stunt

The interesting part of the process is developing the character, you know, why did he become that? Why is the guy a murderer, or why is this guy a pervert, or whatever he is. So that's the fun part for me to delve into the abyss.

- Brion James

Interesting, Process, Part, Developing

I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't.

- Brion James

Want, Bad, Movie, Character Actor

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