42 Quotes by Brion James

Wake up - time to die.

Wake up – time to die.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.