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Michael Biehn [1956-0] American
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Actor


Michael Connell Biehn is an American actor. He is primarily known for his military roles in science fiction films directed by James Cameron; as Sgt. Kyle Reese in The Terminator, Cpl. Dwayne Hicks in Aliens and Lt. Coffey in The Abyss. He was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Actor for Aliens. His other films include The Fan, K2, Tombstone, The Rock, Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 and Planet Terror. On television, he has appeared in Hill Street Blues and Adventure Inc..

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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.
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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.
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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. Movies
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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.
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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. Attitude
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I would say that one of the things that we are proud of is that we are attracting very interesting guest stars. One is Tyne Daly, who has done a wonderful job.
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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.
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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.
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My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When I first moved out to Los Angeles I was thinking, you know, I wanted to be an actor but I didn't really know what acting was about. 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.
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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.
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I grew up in Arizona and have a lot of buddies that are cowpokes.
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Right before Mag Seven I did a movie called The Bull Rider.
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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.
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When I was a kid everyone used to call me pork 'n.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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'Unforgiven,' I think, is the best Western ever.
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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!
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