71 Quotes by Lance Henriksen

I'm pretty slapstick in my life but nobody sees that. You get typecast. I'm from New York and I have a sh*t-detector that's outspoken. I'm very streetwise and the producers detect that. So they get me on a movie and kill me. I go into their offices and I'm sure when I leave they say, 'You know, he'd be great to kill'. I've been killed every way you can imagine.

I’m not Tom Cruise. I don’t have to look that good. I’m always going to have a problem because I’m thought of as someone edgy, but I’m not. I’m a cupcake.

We are all guilty in someone’s eyes. More so our own.

To me rites of passage through life, that’s a wonderful, beautiful thing.

If the crowd is too big, it’s too much for me. I took my daughter down there, and all I did was spend all of my time worrying that she was going to get lost because you’re caught between somebody with a sandwich in their hand and somebody in a costume. It’s really crazy.

Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don’t want to play boring good guys.

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.

I stay subjective because that’s what I do. That’s one of my abilities. I don’t need to watch it because I’ve had the adventure. I don’t do low-budget acting. I do the same acting, whether I’m in a Jim Cameron or not. I always try to do good work. There’s no snobbery in there.

I might go visit it one day, but I couldn’t do any more than just visit. I love it, don’t get me wrong, but it’s just too big. I’m going to be at a lot of other conventions this year, with the book and everything.