I always wanted to be an actor, even when I was a little kid. When I used to run away from home, I'd go to movies and sit all night watching Kirk Douglas. When I was 16, I tried getting… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
You can't do every movie - although I do a lot of them - and the thing I'm longing to do is... it's not… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
What's frustrating to me is when, on a low-budget movie, people don't take chances. A big-budget movie, that script's your bible; nobody's going to… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
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… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
You have to take a wheelbarrow full of money and roll out and try to make a movie out of it. But you run… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
As a kid, there was a painting of 'Appeal to the Great Spirit' that I would see when I would get oatmeal bowls out… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing. — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasnt like the country club that it is now. It was very raw.… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
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… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
One of my favorites of all time was with Jim Jarmusch, called 'Dead Man.' I was in that with Johnny Depp. I ride really… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
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… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share
There's a potter that lived back in the 1800s, in Biloxi, Mississippi, and his name was George Ohr. He was of Russian descent, but they called him the "Mad Potter of Biloxi." I'd love to do a great character study and comedy about that guy's life. That would be my dream role. I know it's an oddball thing, but it's… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share
