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Brion James [1945-1999] American

Rank: 103
Actor, Character actor

Brion Howard James was an American character actor. Known for playing the character of Leon Kowalski in the movie Blade Runner, James portrayed a variety of colorful roles in well-known films such as Southern Comfort, 48 Hrs., Another 48 Hrs., Tango & Cash, Red Heat, The Player and The Fifth Element.

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I play out negative fantasies for people. I'm the guy people love to hate. And they always remember the bad guy.		101
I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.		102
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.	Movies	103
Producing is nothing more than bringing all the elements together, connecting people.		104
Since very early in my career, I have always did my own stunt fighting.		105
My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.		106
I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice.		107
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.		108
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.		109
The bad guys are the best parts.		110
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.		111
Blade Runner helped make my career. Everybody was in it. Who knew?		112
You never know what show is going to change your life.		113
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.		114
I could talk about Blade Runner forever.		115
Larry Kasdan is a great director.		116
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.		117
Work begets work.		118
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.		119
You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.		120
I was a different kind of kid, oversensitive and all that.		121
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.		122
In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died.		123
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.		124
I still do television. I don't care. I just want to work. I love to work. I want to do 500 movies.		125
I've never considered myself a leading man, don't look like one, don't want to be one.		126

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