Lance Henriksen Net Worth

Lance Henriksen's Quotes

• 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 into the Actors Studio and they told me to get lost. I said "I'll come back when I'm a man", and I came back when I was 30. I went to sea, I traveled the world . . . I was waiting.
• 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 that I think I'm funny . . . but I long to do a situation comedy.
• The challenge for me in a part is if it's something I haven't done.
• If I'm going to have a rough time doing it, then that's what I'll do. If I'm in the comfort zone, I can't. I have to get off-balance enough to be alive.
• I'm pretty slapstick in my life but nobody sees that. You get typecast. I'm from New York and I have a shit-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 to kill". I've been killed every way you can imagine.

Interesting Facts about Lance Henriksen

1. Has two daughters: Sage Ariel (12 October 1999) and Alcamy (b. 1987).
2. Was illiterate until the age of thirty, when he learned to read by studying movie scripts.
3. His father was a Merchant Marine seaman nicknamed "Icewater".
4. Parents divorced when he was two.
5. Dropped out of school and left home at age 12.
6. Served in the United States Navy.
7. There was talk of having him 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). However, that idea was eventually rejected.
8. He was the original choice for Commodore DeMarco in The Abyss (1989), but he couldn't appear due to a scheduling conflict.
9. 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.
10. In addition to having faced off against lethal aliens in the "Alien" and "Predator" films, he has also appeared in a film about more benevolent aliens: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).
11. As a young man, he hitchhiked across the United States.
12. He was James Cameron's original choice for the title role in The Terminator (1984) when the concept was for a machine that could blend into a crowd. Cameron had even made concept drawings of Henriksen as the Terminator. When the concept was changed, and Arnold Schwarzenegger was cast, Henriksen was re-cast as Det. Vukovich. When Cameron made Aliens (1986), he cast Henriksen as Bishop, an android.
13. Lived in Borneo for three years when he was a kid.
14. Enjoys pottery and has been doing it for over 40 years.
15. He has filmed over seven movies in Romania.
16. He was walking through a hotel lobby in Romania (where he was wrapping up another film) when he was offered One Point O (2004).
17. Is a big fan of Eminem's music.
18. Loves to vacation in Hawaii.
19. He and Bill Paxton are the only two actors to face off against a Terminator, an Alien and a Predator.
20. He is the only actor besides Sigourney Weaver to appear in more than one "Alien" movie.