42 Quotes by Brion James

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.

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.

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.

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

I still do television. I don't care. I just want to work. I love to work. I want to do 500 movies.

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

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

You never know what show is going to change your life.

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.