At least once a week, I try to have one day where I have nothing planned so I can get up and just go back to bed and lay around and recharge my batteries.
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More Dolph Lundgren Quotes
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I’ve drank more beer and pissed more blood and banged more women than all you numb nuts put together!
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I used to play drums when I was a kid, play the trombone.
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Because he’s a character who’s looking for his own identity, [He-Man is] an interesting role for an actor.
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It takes nine months for a baby to develop, it takes nine months to develop a character.
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As a hero, you have to play it straight. The audience is going to live through you, so you have to be more neutral. They will be projecting their thoughts and their actions onto the main character.
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I think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that’s what made me desperate to get the most out of life.
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My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me.
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Unless you’re playing a real character based on a real person, if someone else has done it before, you’re probably better off not watching it as an actor. Otherwise you end up trying to copy someone else.
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You realize as a director that when you are cutting a film, you want to have alternatives. You need color and choices. You don’t want four takes that are identical.
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I try to keep the martial arts up. It’s a good thing, not just physically but also for your mind.
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There are a lot of great athletes who stop working out, and they get out of shape like everybody else in their 30s and 40s.
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I think by planning an exercise regime, your diet follows to some extent.
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I discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate.
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Stallone is a pretty tough director. You don’t mess with him.
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The interesting thing about TV drama that’s kind of nice is, I’m just an actor. I’m doing my role.
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Your body’s made to run, to walk, to trek long distances and carry things, work in a forest, and hunt animals. You have to keep it alive to function.
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It was fun to talk too much as Jebediah Woodley, to keep running your mouth whether the other characters want to hear it or not. That’s part of what made this guy fun.
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I’ve actually always been into suits. But I never really wore them, I guess because I was too young and it didn’t feel right.
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You really have to work hard to create a three-dimensional character. You have to rehearse and explore and take your time. You can’t just memorize your lines and do it on the fly.
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Karate has helped me lots, otherwise I might have got lost in substance abuse or something like the things a lot of other people do.
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First the movie, the actual playing of the role and trying to deliver what everybody wanted. Then, when the film came out, there was instant fame. I was just a kid from Sweden, I didn’t know what was going on.
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In the normal life of an actor or director, running around, there’s not much time to go to church. But there’s other ways to be spiritual, too.
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I train about four or five times a week. I guess I am addicted to it. I also do a lot of martial arts. More than I have done in awhile. I like to go back to martial arts because it makes me feel good.
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The acting style that has emerged from HD, because of the contrast and how sharp the picture is, it’s more neutrally played. The main character is very minamalistic. That’s what works in this digital age.
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My problem is that people get intimidated by someone big and beautiful like me. They hate to think I can be smart as well.
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When I got cast in ‘Rocky IV,’ I had never seen a film camera before. And here I was in this boxing movie.
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