Brion James Quotes

I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.

With storytelling, you have to see yourself as the hero in the movie of your own life, and I kind of see myself as a supporting role, a walk-on role that has five lines. I say, 'Mr. President, the Russians are here.' That's how I see myself.

I'm not a leading man.

I don't have to be a leading man. I can be a character actor. That's really what interests me anyway.

I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.

I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.

I don't feel like, 'Now I'm a great actress.'

I'm not a leading man; I don't think I've got the face of a leading man, and I don't think, ever in my life, someone will cast me in the role of a leading man.

I don't think of myself as a role model.

Can I be a leading man? I don't believe myself to be; I don't think that I am, but I'm in this place as a performer where I think about how to make things smaller, more subtle.

I don't know what I am. I guess you can call me a character actor in the sense that I'll never be an ingenue. You know, that's over. My shot was missed. I take a normal person and make them more of a character. I don't know what that would be called.

I don't consider myself an icon.

I would never think of myself as a celebrity.

I have met people who have called me the god of hockey, but in my head, I know who I am.

I don't feel like an icon; I don't think of myself as an icon.

Privately I think that I'm not really somebody who has a network television show. Celebrities are other people - Johnny Carson and Sylvester Stallone. I'm just a kid trying to make a living is the way I feel.

I don’t even think of myself as a quote, unquote star - that’s really douchey. I think of myself as just like . . . a dance commander.

I'm not insecure, but I'm not like, 'Hi, I'm confident.'

I don't consider myself a martial-arts star. I'd be offended and disappointed if I got a reputation as a martial-arts star.

To me, characters are at the heart of great literature.

You spend so much time writing a character the way I did with Buddy Baker and then Green Arrow that you start to care about them. And you almost think of them as people, you know?

I got spoiled on 'Breaking Bad.' Playing the same guy for four or five seasons, you get to really explore who the character is.

I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield, who is Oliver Twist? And yet he takes such joy in populating the rest of his novels with these fantastic, grotesque people like Pecksmith and so on.

I tend to spend a lot of time building characters that the reader will believe in and sympathize with.

I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means.