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Stallone is a pretty tough director. You don’t mess with him.

Dolph Lundgren

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
When I was a teenager, my dad used to put a lot of pressure on me to be successful, and I’d really beat myself up about things like losing martial arts competitions.
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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.
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Audience Element Model Modeling Myself Person Role Start
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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Fun Man Mouth Run Talk Yourself
Everybody’s life has some mythical quality. You struggle against obstacles, you fight to get to a higher level and there are great loves.
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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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Death Desperate Existence Life Mortal Myself Scare Thinking
If I need to bulk up for a role, I will do more weights. If I need to slim down for something, I will do more cardio. That’s usually how it goes.
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Cardio Myself Need Role Weight
I suppose I will try to enjoy my life now while I have it. Who knows what’s going to happen in the future?
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Enjoyment Fulfill Future Life Myself Utilize
I’ve never had a good line. Well, maybe ‘I must break you’.
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Break Goodness Line Myself Yourself
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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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
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
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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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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In my career, whether it’s a big or a small movie, when I’ve worked on something for a long time, like [Ivan] Drago in Rocky IV, they start to take on a life of their own.
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Big Career Life Movie Myself Small Start
Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he’s done some good action movies too.
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When you are acting in a film, you have no idea what scene the editor is going to choose. For instance, after you have directed, you feel more comfortable delivering a performance. Because you know the real performance is put together in the editing room.
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Act Comfortable Deliver Edition Feeling Ideas Movie Performance Room Yourself
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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Creation Exploration Fly Memories Work Yourself
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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You get a bigger paycheck if you are the hero. There is something good about it.
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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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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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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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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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I’ve drank more beer and pissed more blood and banged more women than all you numb nuts put together!
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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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People like to lay their whole life, and all of their own secrets out in front of the world. They make money off of it, and find satisfaction that way. I personally don’t believe in that. I think it can be hurtful to yourself and those around you.
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Believe Hurt Life Money People Personal Secret World Yourself

Stallone is a pretty tough director. You don’t mess with him.

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