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

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

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.

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

I could talk about Blade Runner forever.

Brion James

Talk

I liked the drama of getting stoned.

Brion James

Drama

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

Drugs

Jobs

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?

Brion James

Career

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

Brion James

People

Nothing

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.

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.

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

Brion James

Change

Life

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