Michael Biehn Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Unforgiven, I think, is the best Western ever.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.