Brion James Quotes

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.

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• Writing has been handed to me on a plate.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Plate

• I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Fun

• I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Diet
  • Constantly
  • Strict

• The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Hand

• Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Live
  • Funny
  • Amazing

• Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Body
  • Individual
  • Self-Worth

• I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Bad
  • Mom
  • Player

• It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • People
  • Book
  • Amazing

• Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Want
  • Stone
  • New Things

• I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.

  

  Walter Wager
  • Time
  • City
  • Research

• I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Black

• In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • You
  • End
  • Yourself

• My character Saurabh Singhania is a rich, bad guy who is driven by revenge, so much that you feel like scratching his face or throwing stones at him. The intimate scenes in the trailer are creating quite a buzz... I wish they had shown more of the story instead of the sizzling scenes. The film is not about boldness or intimacy.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Character
  • Bad
  • Guy

• When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Think
  • Beautiful
  • Best

• I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Hands
  • Two
  • Give

• I don't plot with huge detail, just big moments and important elements, and then I have a structure but can fly by the seat of my pants when I write.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Important
  • Moments
  • Fly

• Just because you're selling out shows doesn't mean you deserve better treatment than the person next door.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Better
  • Door
  • Just Because

• My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Life
  • Suffering
  • End

• You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish.

  

  Darrell Royal
  • Fall

• Ambition is the death of thought.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Death
  • Ambition

• The fact that President-elect Kennedy would be the first Catholic president did not sit well with many Americans. There was a fear that, as president, Kennedy's decisions would be based on his religion and dictated by the pope.

  

  Clint Hill
  • Fear
  • Catholic

• A lot of actors think they can't be happy without the acting... But I think I couldn't be happy with it anymore.

  

  Genie Francis
  • Happy

• I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gotten offers to do the movies, but I won't sell myself short and be in somebody else's movie, like 'Boyz N the Hood.' I don't think I woulda done that.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Money
  • Done
  • Movie

• 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.

  

  Brion James
  • Character
  • Bad
  • Movie