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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.

Dolph Lundgren

I mean there’s still also an element of the audience looking for role models. In my day, when I started, if you were an action hero, you were a little bit of a role model like the person.
DOLPH LUNDGREN

Audience Element Model Modeling Myself Person Role Start
You can’t give someone five hundred punches in a film anymore. You beat on them, and they continue to stand there staring at you. That doesn’t work. People just don’t buy that anymore.
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Movie People Stand Stare Yourself
I think by planning an exercise regime, your diet follows to some extent.
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Diet Exercise Follow Planning Yourself
I prefer to channel my problems and inner demons through a character. Another persona. That protects me and my family. I can get my frustrations out that way.
DOLPH LUNDGREN

Character Demon Frustration Myself Preference Problem Way
I got good grades in school, but I’m not sure if I’m smart or if it just means I can study. I’ve never taken one of those IQ tests, and I don’t want to. It’s so pointless. As long as you enjoy life and have fun and you’re healthy and happy, that’s what matters.
DOLPH LUNDGREN

Enjoyment Fun Goodness Grade Happiness Health Myself Point Result Smart Study
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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Death Desperate Existence Life Mortal Myself Scare Thinking
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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Help Lost Myself People Substance
Jackie Chan, I’ve known him, he’s a great guy. I know he’s very watchable and fun. He’s perfect, actually.
DOLPH LUNDGREN

Greatness Guy Known Myself Perfection Personal
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.
DOLPH LUNDGREN

Fun Man Mouth Run Talk Yourself
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’ve drank more beer and pissed more blood and banged more women than all you numb nuts put together!
DOLPH LUNDGREN

Blood Drink Myself Togetherness Woman
Film is about what you are thinking. It’s about what’s inside.
DOLPH LUNDGREN

Movie Thinking Yourself
I discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate.
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Art Discover Martial Myself
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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Alive Animal Distance Forest Function Run Walk Yourself
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.
DOLPH LUNDGREN

Better Character End Play Real Try Yourself
I do a little bit of yoga-style meditation. Relaxing and breathing even just one minute a day makes a big difference.
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Big Breathe Difference Meditation Myself Style

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