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Brion James

"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."

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"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."

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Akiroq Brost

"I don't think about Hollywood at all."

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"My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out."

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Akiroq Brost

"In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies."

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Akiroq Brost

"It only worked for a little while; the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out."

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Akiroq Brost

"The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do."

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Akiroq Brost

"Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood."

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Akiroq Brost

"I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood."

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Akiroq Brost

"What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait."

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Akiroq Brost

"I am not a Hollywood Jew and I won't ever be one."

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Akiroq Brost

"Hollywood wants press, any kind of press."

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

Work

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

Love

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Brion James
"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."

Movies

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

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

Career

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

Comedy

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Brion James
"Work begets work."

Work

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

Leadership

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Brion James
"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."

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

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