Lance Henriksen Quotes & Trivia



Quotes

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 appreciate the idea that anybody would think of me as a star. But I'm really not career oriented in the sense that I want to be a star. It's not in me. It's not what I do. In fact, I'm amazed that I've even gotten this far.

The Aliens and Terminator imitations will eventually fizzle out. But there will always be room for a new phobia. It's the uniqueness of the horror genre that will keep it alive because it's endless.

The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if... ?' I just come in and do it.

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

When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.

You do your work as fully as you can, and the ones who hear the sound join in.

You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.

Trivia

Lance's new role will be as Brainiac in the DTV animated cartoon 'Superman: Brainiac Attacks'.

Lance was offered the same Omega 'Sportsmaster Professional' watch for Frank BLack the 2nd season of Millennium by Omega.

Lance had a $1000 tattoo painted on his back for the 1988 actioner Hit List, he had to pay for it himself.

Lance is currently filming the sequels to Pumpkinhead (a popular sci-fi horror 80s film). He plays the ghost of Ed Harley.

Lance has sculpted a series of collectable ceramic tiles inspired by his roles in the films Aliens & AVP.

Lance is in a short film called A Message from Fallujah (2005).

Lance was arrested numerous times during his youth for vagrancy. A result of leaving home at twelve.

Lance supplied the voice of Nick Conner in the video game Run Like Hell (2002).

Lance supplied the voice of Abaddon in the video game The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Lance was the voice of Thomas MacGruder on the video game GUN.

Lance has two tattoos: one is a shark, the other of dolphins.

In 1997, Lance was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a TV-Series - Drama for: Millennium (1996).

In 1999, Lance was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a TV-Series - Drama for: Millennium (1996).

In 2003, Lance was nominated for the DVDX Award for Best Actor in a DVD Premiere Movie for: Mimic: Sentinel (2003).

In 1994, Lance won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor for: Hard Target (1993).

In 1999, Lance was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Genre TV Actor for: Millennium (1996).

Lance is also known as an accomplished artist, and has his own line of pottery available.

Lance and actor Bill Paxton have both been killed in all three film franchises by the Alien, The Predator, and Terminator.

Lance has had at least two franchise characters written for him over the years. James Cameron originally wrote The Terminator (1984) character with him in mind, as did Victor Salva with the Creeper from the Jeepers Creepers (2001) movies.

There was talk of having Lance reprise his role as Detective Vukovich in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003). The idea was to have his character bound in a wheelchair (after having survived the events of the original film). That idea, however, was eventually rejected.

Lance left home at the age of twelve.

Lance's father was a fisherman nicknamed 'Icewater.'

Lance has two daughters: Sage Ariel (12 October 1999), and Alcamy (b. 1987).

Lance is 5' 10?" (1.78 m) tall.