Lance Henriksen Quotes

Having been trained as a stage actor, and then you go out there and you're on 40,000 acres and you have a horse under you and you're shooting a real gun, you almost don't have to act. It's just really amazing.

There's something very cool as an actor when you have an opportunity to play somebody who's real, whether they're still alive or not, but who has lived a life.

All I really want to do is someday be in a western. If I could be on a horse with a rifle, I would be a really happy camper.

One of my favorites of all time was with Jim Jarmusch, called 'Dead Man.' I was in that with Johnny Depp. I ride really well, and I shoot a gun really well. I love the genre. Once I did Westerns, I was hooked.

I always felt so much more comfortable in the Western. The minute I got a horse and a hat and a pair of boots on, I felt easier. I didn't feel like I was an actor anymore. I felt like I was the guy out there doing it.

The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.

Sometimes you don't prepare much. I mean, when I did 'Lonesome Dove' way back I rode horses day and night for like three or four months, and that got me ready for that.

I love Westerns. I really love John Wayne. Frank Capra, any of his movies I love.

I've done a little bit of everything now, but I would like to do a Western because I've never done that.

I love westerns. I've always wanted to do a western.

It's fun for women to be in a Western. And I had to learn how to handle the guns. I would walk around with the fake guns. It takes a lot of practice to twirl them around - but I can do a lot of crazy things now from movies. I can gallop a camel! Give me a camel, I know how to start it and stop it!

In real life I'm not the one who's playing with guns or smoking.

Playing a villain was fun, only because you get to do all the things you wouldn't normally do in your real life.

I feel like a real cowboy! Yippi Ki Yay!

For movies like The Longest Ride, I got to hang out with cowboys at rodeos and learned how to ride a bull, essentially.

I realize I have a lot of amazing opportunities, but I don't know how you can play a human being going through real human experiences without being able to walk down the street. If you can't live a real life, how do you play a real person? It always confuses me when actors work back-to-back-to-back with no break. If you live your life on a film set, how the hell can you relate to real people? You don't know what its like to not have people fussing over you all day, and that's not life - that's silly movies. I will always want to take breaks and I wouldn't be OK with losing that.

Playing with guns you revert to a little boy sometimes. But they're not great things to play with, so it's just making them look real. When it comes to shooting guns or using any prop, you've got to make it look like you know what you're doing with them. It's called acting.

I'm not a big fan of western movies and I really don't like cowboy-indian movies. I have never watched them.

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.

That's a trick question Peter. It's real-life. Master P is a thug. He's poppin' everybody.

I think I lead a really real life.

Remember, guns don't kill people - unless you practice real hard.

The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable

One of the crazy things about our job is that we get taught these insane skills that we could never use in real life.

It is long been a principal of ours that one is no more armed because he has possession of a firearm than he is a musician because he owns a piano. There is no point in having a gun if you are not capable of using it skillfully.