Brion James Quotes

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

Brion James

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 20, 1945 - August 7, 1999

Topics

CharacterYouTelevisionNeverOver

I have been an organizer and then activist and a legislator, all of that. But then there's this big gap after I advanced in Congress and ended up as the ranking member of financial services committee. It took me into the financial services issues and Wall Street and Dodd Frank. And it took me away from the things that I did years ago.

Maxine Waters

MeFinancialWallCongressStreet

I always used the free room that the G.D.R. allowed me... There was no shadow over my childhood.

Angela Merkel

ChildhoodShadowMeFreeOverRoom

The people who think I'm famous are knitters. Most of my life, I'm wildly unrecognized.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

LifePeopleThinkFamousMy Life

If you can't empathize with other people, then you will never really be able to write well about them.

Rumaan Alam

PeopleYouWillNeverWriteWell

It's a different thing to write a love story now than in the time of Jane Austen, Eliot, or Tolstoy. One of the problems is that once divorce is possible, once break-ups are possible, it can all become a little less momentous.

Mona Simpson

LoveTimeStoryProblemsDivorce

The notion that there is no basic value system is far more incoherent or invalid than the notion that there are essential values. Every religion can tell you it has basic values. You ask a Christian, most Christians would say love God and love your neighbor. Is that the entirety of Christianity? No one in his right mind would say it is.

Dennis Prager

LoveGodReligionValueMindYou

I've thought about the idea of, 'Can happiness and creativity co-exist?' So much of what I've done, I think, has been based on being dissatisfied or incomplete or lonely. The answer is, 'There isn't an answer, necessarily.'

Conor Oberst

HappinessCreativityThinkThought

I didn't really inhabit myself until I was in my 30s. And motherhood is an epic event. You can't help but be altered by it - and it is important to be.

Anne-Marie Duff

MyselfMotherhoodHelpYouImportant

Since I've had some success, story and character are always the two elements I think about first in material presented to me. Some of my choices have been more successful than others.

Powers Boothe

SuccessCharacterMeChoicesThink

I like movies that are scary, but I don't want them to be dirt dumb. I want a movie that gets my blood racing, makes me laugh, but also gives me something to think about, with maybe a little sexy thrown in. Hollywood doesn't make movies like that.

Penn Jillette

MeThinkSexyLaughRacingDumb

Having a thick skin doesn't mean that you're hard or harsh. I was lucky because I was born with a thick skin. That doesn't mean that things don't bother me, but you have to keep it in perspective.

Shelley Moore Capito

PerspectiveMeYouBornSkinLucky

I'm a loyal guy. I'm a man of my word, and I assumed other people would be that way. That's just not the case in life.

Tim Duncan

LifeManPeopleWayLoyalGuy

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