Nick Stahl Biography

Wide-eyed young actor Nick Stahl made his feature debut opposite Mel Gibson and courted the late-'90s teen crowd with a role in the thriller Disturbing Behavior (1998), but a number of his movies have not been the average box-office fluff.Raised in Dallas, Stahl began acting at the age of four in commercials and local theater. After his first TV movie, Stranger at My Door (1991), Stahl soon moved to feature films with a starring role as the boy tutored by Mel Gibson's deformed recluse in the Gibson-directed drama The Man Without a Face (1993). Continuing to work with Hollywood heavyweights, Stahl played one of Susan Sarandon's sons in Safe Passage (1994) and acted with Walter Matthau in the TV film Incident in a Small Town (1994). After the young teen starred in the Disney film Tall Tale (1994), Stahl was back to TV movies with family drama Blue River (1995). Alternating between mainstream fare and more challenging work, Stahl began to aim for a slightly older audience with a role in the independent rural crime drama and Sundance Film Festival entrant Eye of God (1997). Though Stahl joined the late-'90s teen movie brigade co-starring alongside Katie Holmes in the thriller Disturbing Behavior (1998), he also appeared that same year as a Charlie Company soldier who dies too young in Terrence Malick's hypnotic anti-war anti-epic The Thin Red Line (1998). Stahl began 2001 with roles in two Sundance Film Festival critical favorites, Todd Field's family drama In the Bedroom (2001) and iconoclast Christopher Munch's The Sleepy Time Gal (2001). On his way to becoming an indie fixture, Stahl then took on the unappealing role of the doomed titular character in controversial photographer-turned-director Larry Clark's exploration of true-life violent teen anomie, Bully (2001). Stahl, however, finished 2001 on the critical high note with which it began when In the Bedroom, featuring Stahl as Sissy Spacek and Tom Wilkinson's son, earned raves and prizes as one of the best films of the year.Though to this point Stahl's film roles had consisted of mainly low-budget and independent fare, all of this would change with the release of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines in 2003. Rumored to have taken over the role of John Conner following original star Edward Furlong's much publicized bout with drug abuse, Stahl eagerly stepped up to the role. The summer of 2003 also found Stahl gearing up for the premier of his the new HBO series Carnivàle. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi

• 1. John Connor: There is no such thing as destiny, only what we made for ourselves.
  From Terminator 3 - Rise of the Machines. Submitted by Nusfish K (3 months ago)

• 1. Hartigan: Roark! Give it up. Let the girl go.
  2. Junior / Yellow Bastard: [holding a young Nancy] You can't do a goddamn thing to me Hartigan. You know who I am. You know who my father is! You can't touch me, you piece of shit cop! Look at you, you can't even lift that cannon you carry!
  3. Hartigan: [pause] Sure I can. [shoots Junior]
  From Sin City. Submitted by Gavin S (10 months ago)

• 1. Gavin Strick: Rae, Gavin Strick here. Live and unplugged. Guess if you found this, then you know. Am I hanging with Trent and Robby, and the rest of the Robots? God, I hope not. I hit the vents tonight when I split up with Stevie Boy. He doesn't believe. I went back to school, and I overheard Caldicott talking to some wonk. Mentioned 'Bishop Flats Eleven.' Caldicott called them his children. Then he freaked out on the guy and kicked him out of his office. So, I figure something's up with that. Keep an eye on U.V. For me, though I doubt they'll want him. I doubt they're interested in the pigmentally challenged. That's not their style. I have to go get paranoid. This is Gavin Strick, reporting live from The Reconstruction.
  From Disturbing Behavior. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Gavin Strick: (now a programmed Blue Ribbon) Hello, class. Welcome.
  From Disturbing Behavior. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Gavin Strick: What happened to you? Did you eat too much flank steak?
  From Disturbing Behavior. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Gavin Strick: You know the problem with America is mankind's abject unwillingness, to contribute to the delinquency of minors.
  From Disturbing Behavior. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Gavin Strick: What do you say we cruise town, chase a case hit the bluff and drink some beer? Consecrate Stevie Boy's arrival to this new and pathetic tank town.
  From Disturbing Behavior. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Gavin Strick: Like that?
  2. Steve Clark: What is it?
  3. Gavin Strick: It's bona fide jitterbug. It's my buddy, Rachel. Cook's Ridge trash. She's a great chick, but she's Cook's Ridge trash.
  From Disturbing Behavior. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Gavin Strick: Here's where it gets really nasty. Lorna runs with that group there, the Blue Ribbons.
  2. Steve Clark: What's that?
  3. Gavin Strick: It's a community group of good kids. Have bake sales, car washes. Kiss a lot of adult sphincter.
  4. U.V.: Blue Robots.
  5. Gavin Strick: Here, here. Those three guys: Cradle Bay's answer to Manson, McVeigh and O.J. Trent Whalen, Andy Effkin, Robby Stewart.
  6. U.V.: I bet you didn't know that toast came in three flavors.
  7. Gavin Strick: This group's music of choice: The hum of perfection, the buzz of ambition. Drug of choice: Life, the pursuit of clean living at the expense of all who sniffle at the hem of their gowns.
  8. U.V.: Freaks, so chic.
  9. Gavin Strick: Then you got kids like me and U.V. Lames who like our metal heavy, our Marlboros light. Music of choice: Harvester of Sorrow, Language of the Mad. Drug of choice: What do you got?
  10. U.V.: Freaks all week.
  11. Gavin Strick: That's it. Lesson over. Class dismembered. Welcome to Cradle Bay High, Stevie Boy. Welcome to my nightmare.
  From Disturbing Behavior. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Gavin Strick: It's a class system here at C.B. High, Stevie Boy. Check it out. There you got your motorheads, car jocks. All the world's a gasket and a lube job and a pack of Luckys. Music of choice: Posi-traction overdrive, classic rock. Skynyrd, The Allmans, Bruce. Drug of choice: Beer, Miller Genuine Draft. Keggers can't be choosers.
  2. U.V.: Freaks who fix leaks.
  3. Gavin Strick: Over here you have your microgeeks, nerds, whiz kids and various other bottom feeders. Music of choice: The sound of an Apple PC booting up. Drug of choice: Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time' and a cup of jasmine tea on a Saturday night.
  4. U.V.: Freaks that go squeak.
  5. Gavin Strick: Over there you have your skaters. Riffin', raging kids and their ramp tramps. Baggy pants, Dickie wools, doing 50-50 grinds with a gnarly grab finish on a homemade half-pipe in the woods. Music of choice: The whack of a hacky sack. Drug of choice: Ecstasy, E-tab. Baby, longer lovin' through science.
  6. U.V.: Freaks in sneaks.
  From Disturbing Behavior. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Gavin Strick: We smoked a fatty during gym. (Looks at U.V.) Check him out. He looks almost tan.
  From Disturbing Behavior. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Gavin Strick: (sees Andy Effkin being talked to by police) Andy Effkin, toasts with the most.
  From Disturbing Behavior. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Gavin Strick: The Yogurt Shop, Yogurt Shoppe, what the f**k's a Shoppe?
  From Disturbing Behavior. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Gavin Strick: (blue ribbons circle around Steve) Ice, Ice Baby.
  From Disturbing Behavior. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Gavin Strick: Rachel, this is Stevie Boy-good man. Stevie Boy, this is Rachel-Cooks Ridge trash.
  2. Rachel Wagner: (disgusted) Bite me.
  From Disturbing Behavior. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Gavin Strick: Mr. Newberry here has got the full-on Boo Radley, village idiot, Quasimoto thing going, don't you Mr. Newb?
  From Disturbing Behavior. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Gavin Strick: Look at him, he's killing his hard-on.
  From Disturbing Behavior. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Gavin Strick: Appropriate sparks are flying, somebody cue the power ballad.
  From Disturbing Behavior. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)