Michael Biehn Quotes

• I was feeling real good and real manly. Until a real cowboy walked by and told me I had my hat on backwards. So much for my career as a cowboy.

  Michael Biehn

  Real, Cowboy, Careers

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• Listen and understand. That Terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.

  Michael Biehn

  Terminator 2, Pity, Feels

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• I thought if I could be a model, or even do commercials and stuff like that for the rest of my life, I’d be happy.

  Michael Biehn

  Stuff, Models, If I Could

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• I think every director's different. Every director's got his own style. I mean, when I directed, I basically just screamed for eight hours a day, twelve hours a day.

  Michael Biehn

  Mean, Thinking, Eight

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• They gave me the chaps and hat and everything. I looked like a real cowboy. I walked around the rodeo and thought, I am a real cowboy and thought everyone thought I was a real cowboy.

  Michael Biehn

  Real, Hate, Cowboy

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• I'd rather have a small part in a good film with good people than play the lead in something I don't really care for.

  Michael Biehn

  Play, People, Care

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Right before Mag Seven I did a movie called The Bull Rider.

  Michael Biehn

  Bulls, Seven, Mags

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• I don't like gratuitous violence. I don't like the 'Saw' movies. I don't like the 'Hostel' movies. I don't like anything that is violence for violence's sake.

  Michael Biehn

  Sake, Saws, Violence

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• To be perfectly honest with you, I was partying a lot in school. I didn't have any good study habits from high school because I just kind of got by on being a jock.

  Michael Biehn

  Party, School, Jocks

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• Johnny Ringo to me was just the best antagonist that I've ever played, because I played him as a guy who has a death wish and had done everything that he wanted in life. As far as he was concerned, a gun fight was about as exciting as it was going to get.

  Michael Biehn

  Fighting, Gun, Guy

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• Unforgiven, I think, is the best Western ever.

  Michael Biehn

  Thinking, Western

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• And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead!

  Michael Biehn

  Terminator 2, Remorse

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• As I've always said, 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' I'm much better with women than I am being tough in a bar!

  Michael Biehn

  Bars, Lovers, Tough

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• I don’t want to spread myself out to other games that don’t have the passion… You know, like the Aliens game.

  Michael Biehn

  Passion, Games, Want

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• I don't have a computer. I don't know anything about that. I don't even know what a website is.

  Michael Biehn

  Computer, Website, Knows

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• I grew up in Arizona and have a lot of buddies that are cowpokes.

  Michael Biehn

  Arizona, Grew, Grew Up

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• I had a weird situation were someone used my name to extort money from a woman. He took her for 60 or 80 thousand dollars. He is in prison now. It was on Sally.

  Michael Biehn

  Names, Dollars, Prison

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• When I was a kid I used to go to the movies, double features in outdoor theaters, and my parents used to take us to see like, 'Cat On a Hot Tin Roof' or something like that, with Elizabeth Taylor.

  Michael Biehn

  Cat, Kids, Parent

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• When I was a kid everyone used to call me pork 'n.

  Michael Biehn

  Kids, Pork, Used

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• I saw 'Taxi Driver,' and 'Taxi Driver' kind of saved my life. The scene where Robert De Niro is looking at himself in the mirror saying, 'You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Who the hell else are you talkin' to?' That's the scene that changed my life by changing my attitude about acting.

  Michael Biehn

  Attitude, Mirrors, Acting

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• I think I'm prouder of 'The Victim' than anything else, just because, if nothing else, it doesn't look silly, it doesn't look stupid. It holds up. It's fun. A lot of people have enjoyed it, and I'm real happy about it.

  Michael Biehn

  Fun, Real, Stupid

  "Michael Biehn on The Victim, William Friedkin, and his favorite antagonist role". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. October 2, 2012.

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• I am much more involved in the filmmaking experience on Mag Seven. I'm much more involved in story elements, casting decisions, the writing of the show, the blocking of the scenes.

  Michael Biehn

  Movie, Block, Writing

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• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is a movie that I just find flawless. Jack Nicholson... I just saw 'The Shining' again the other day; he's so brilliant. He's such a brilliant actor, just unbelievable.

  Michael Biehn

  Shining, Cuckoos, Actors

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• Taxi Driver' is a movie that changed my life and made me a serious actor. Scorsese and De Niro. I give credit for anything that I've ever done as an actor.

  Michael Biehn

  Giving, Serious, Credit

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• The thing about the movie 'Navy SEALs' is that it was just such a waste. The script could've been shaped to be much better, and you just hate to see all that talent and passion go to waste.

  Michael Biehn

  Hate, Passion, Navy

  "Michael Biehn on The Victim, William Friedkin, and his favorite antagonist role". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. October 2, 2012.

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