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 LUNDGRENI 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 LUNDGRENJackie Chan, I’ve known him, he’s a great guy. I know he’s very watchable and fun. He’s perfect, actually.
DOLPH LUNDGRENFirst 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.
DOLPH LUNDGRENIt takes nine months for a baby to develop, it takes nine months to develop a character.
DOLPH LUNDGRENI discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate.
DOLPH LUNDGRENI’ve drank more beer and pissed more blood and banged more women than all you numb nuts put together!
DOLPH LUNDGRENI was very sickly as a kid and had a lot of allergies, so martial arts gave me the chance to feel strong.
DOLPH LUNDGRENNicolas Cage is a great actor and he’s done some good action movies too.
DOLPH LUNDGRENI 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.
DOLPH LUNDGRENThere are a lot of great athletes who stop working out, and they get out of shape like everybody else in their 30s and 40s.
DOLPH LUNDGRENMy problem is that people get intimidated by someone big and beautiful like me. They hate to think I can be smart as well.
DOLPH LUNDGRENAt 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.
DOLPH LUNDGRENYou get a bigger paycheck if you are the hero. There is something good about it.
DOLPH LUNDGRENMy 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.
DOLPH LUNDGRENYou 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.
DOLPH LUNDGRENBecause he’s a character who’s looking for his own identity, [He-Man is] an interesting role for an actor.
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