Lance Henriksen Quotes
I've always known from the beginning of my acting career that you only get an acting job if you've got something to learn about it. If you don't do it well, you'll be condemned to doing the same role over and over and over again. If you do it mediocre, you'll have to do it again.
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I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.
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With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.
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I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place - even for its enemies.
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When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
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You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.
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I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.
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I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
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I think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures.
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If my daughter has a bad dream and wants to get into my bed, I'm a sucker for her sweet face and warm body next to mine, so I let her jump in. I should tell her to go to bed, but secretly I love it.
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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For me, it's always been draining to be around people for too long because I'm naturally a pretty expressionless person. From an early age, I found being alone incredibly liberating.
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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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I look at 'Love Child' and it's as if it was written by someone else - someone who knew what they were doing.
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One could make money and get a career going with a low-budget horror film about killers attacking on holidays. It is always flattering to have somebody copy you.
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I've been told throughout my career that I have good instincts, and the idea of discovery and development in terms of a new artist is so exciting to me. Being only 25 and in a position where I might be able to grant opportunities is really cool.
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I've always known from the beginning of my acting career that you only get an acting job if you've got something to learn about it. If you don't do it well, you'll be condemned to doing the same role over and over and over again. If you do it mediocre, you'll have to do it again.
