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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

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
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.
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Character Demon Frustration Myself Preference Problem Way
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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Deliver Instant Myself Play Role
Jackie Chan, I’ve known him, he’s a great guy. I know he’s very watchable and fun. He’s perfect, actually.
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Greatness Guy Known Myself Perfection Personal
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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Drama Interesting Kind Myself
I like being the villian. I don’t know if it has to do with my personality. You get to have a lot more fun as a villian. You don’t have to stick to the rules. You can be a lot crazier. You can go off the rails.
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Crazy Fun Personality Rule Stick Yourself
Having bodyguards is just part of being famous, I think.
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Body Famous Guard Myself Thinking
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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Audience Character Neutral Play Straight Thinking Yourself
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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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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When I started studying acting in New York, I didn’t plan to be an action hero. I just wanted to learn acting because I felt it was something I needed to try to do for myself, to express something, my inner pain, or something I couldn’t get out.
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Expression Learning Myself Planning Start Study
Stallone is a pretty tough director. You don’t mess with him.
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Director Himself Mess Tough Yourself
I think the energy I give off is quite non-confrontational. That’s something you learn from karate. Once you try to be a tough guy, you’ve got to pay up. You’ve got to prove yourself. And that’s exhausting.
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Aura Energy Exhausting Learning Pay Radiation Thinking Tough Yourself
I was very sickly as a kid and had a lot of allergies, so martial arts gave me the chance to feel strong.
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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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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

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