Lance Henriksen Quotes

Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
Lance Henriksen

Different, Won, Stuff

But to this day - I'm very literate now, I love to read, I read constantly - words don't resonate the way they do to a person with a formal education. They're like a maze, a puzzle that has to be opened up.
Lance Henriksen

Love, Education, Person

I appreciate the idea that anybody would think of me as a star. But I'm really not career oriented in the sense that I want to be a star. It's not in me. It's not what I do. In fact, I'm amazed that I've even gotten this far.
Lance Henriksen

Career, Sense, Fact

I don't think in words; I think in pictures, in images.
Lance Henriksen

Words, Pictures, Images

My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'
Lance Henriksen

Feeling, Thinking, Through

The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.
Lance Henriksen

Hate, Mind, Acting

To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing.
Lance Henriksen

Life, Beautiful, Through

When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.
Lance Henriksen

Down, Small, Moment

You do your work as fully as you can, and the ones who hear the sound join in.
Lance Henriksen

Work, Hear, Sound

You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
Lance Henriksen

Work, Around, Acting

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: May 5, 1940

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