Brion James Quotes

One thing that's great about being a character actor is that a movie doesn't rest on your shoulders. If it bombs, it won't hurt my career.

Sometimes I do movies that aren't any good, or sometimes I might not be any good in them, or sometimes they don't do very well.

Personally, I believe that playing the lead antagonist is always better than a character artiste, whose weightage isn't much.

I would rather be called a character actor than a star.

If you are the kind of guy who draws in 100 million people to see his film, you've got every right to be paid accordingly, but I qualify as a character actor. I don't put a bum on a seat.

I have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say.

I don't care about being a star. I can do a supporting role; I don't have to be a lead.

I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as a character actor, there's a wider variety of projects available. On the big Hollywood films, all they care about is having their lead in place, so it's actually easier for someone like me to slip in. And I'm happy to do so.

I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.

'The Road to Wellville'... it had Anthony Hopkins, Bridget Fonda, directed by Alan Parker. I hadn't been doing all that well, and I was thrilled to get it, and it just didn't work. It was a terrible movie, but I don't think it's anyone's fault.

I'm not really that interested in going back to playing small supporting roles.

I have done performance-based roles earlier, films which revolved around me. 'Kshatriya' was one such solid role. And, at that time, people had written good things about it.

No one has ever told me that I act badly. It is just that most of the films I did didn't click.

I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind.

The poor show of a film can be crucial in an actor's career. Maybe that is why some actors choose to act in a lot of films, so as not to be affected by a single hit or a flop.

Every young actor wants this feeling of being the solo lead in a film.

Even when I was doing supporting roles, I always had this belief that one day the opportunity to play a lead would come my way.

When a film doesn't do well, people start doubting you as an actor.

I am continuing to do lead roles and that is where I am actually headed, but doing cameos is also a fun experience.

I have done so many films in which either I have been the main lead or part of the supporting cast.

Though I was aware that the success rate in film industry was one percent and how difficult it was to survive, I wanted to try my luck as an actor.

I would be lying if I would say that I never wanted to be a lead actor. But at the same time, I would say it's a lot of responsibility also; it's too much responsibility.

Though I played a supporting role in 'Lootera,' I am mostly getting offers for leads.

Failure at the box office of some of my earlier films led to a lack of opportunity to play main lead in good films.

Without naming names, you can take some of the biggest artists of the last 25-30 years and point to those moments where they thought they were going to be movie stars, put the entire weight of a film on their back, and it failed. And some of them didn't recover from that.