Lance Henriksen Quotes
I have a lot of stories. I had done a thing called Nightmare in Red White and Blue, which was an anthology of horror films. I narrated it with a man named Joe Maddrey, who's a writer. He came to my house and said, "Lance would you consider doing this?," and I like Joe so much that I completely relaxed.
Quotes to Explore
-
The bad news is, I have worked less than I have liked. The good news is, I can look back on my body of work and feel truly proud of the work I have done.
-
A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
-
In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before.
-
Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
-
Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the clothes I've worn on tour, in videos and on album covers.
-
I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.
-
I'm all about the drugstore beauty products. They're affordable and get the job done.
-
Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?
-
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
-
In the James Cameron blockbuster 'Avatar,' 3-D cinematography is the real star. The bugs and crawling creatures seem to slither into the theater seats. The floating mountains of the planet Pandora hover gloriously overhead. And the Na'Vi, Pandora's 10-foot-tall, blue-skinned natives, come convincingly to life.
-
It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.
-
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
-
The best monsters are our anxieties given form. They make sense on the level of a dream - or a nightmare.
-
I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.
-
Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.
-
Ninety-nine percent of the time, when it comes down to it, if I have the choice between a great role and seeing a new guy, I would probably go for the great role because I figure if the guy's really that great that he'll be around once I'm done with the movie.
-
I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!
-
I've done a lot of things that I regret.
-
The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.
-
Portrait photography never had any charms for me, so I sought my subjects from the house-tops, and finally from the hill-tops and about the surrounding country; the taste strengthening as my successes became greater in proportion to the failures.
-
Beyond the Thunder is the closest I've recorded to an acoustic thing.
-
No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.
-
Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.
-
I have a lot of stories. I had done a thing called Nightmare in Red White and Blue, which was an anthology of horror films. I narrated it with a man named Joe Maddrey, who's a writer. He came to my house and said, "Lance would you consider doing this?," and I like Joe so much that I completely relaxed.
