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It takes nine months for a baby to develop, it takes nine months to develop a character.

Dolph Lundgren

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
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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Director Life Normal Ordinary Religious Spiritual
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
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
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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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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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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Film is about what you are thinking. It’s about what’s inside.
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Movie Thinking Yourself
I think by planning an exercise regime, your diet follows to some extent.
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Diet Exercise Follow Planning Yourself
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
I like the old school heavy metal bands like AC/DC and Aeromith. I like that type of music. As the director, I tried to influence the type of music the bands in the movie would play.
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Metal Movie Music Myself Old Play School
I used to play drums when I was a kid, play the trombone.
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Fun Instrument Myself Talk
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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Alternative Color Director Identity Yourself
I like Stallone, because he writes. He sits down with a blank page and comes up with another Rambo movie. That isn’t very easy for anybody. He’s made it successful on top of that.
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Blank Easy Himself Page Success Writing
I’m not going to freeze my body. One life is enough for me. Some people take this gamble. That someone will be able to bring them back in the future. I’m not going to do it.
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Body Enough Freeze Future Life Myself
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
Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he’s done some good action movies too.
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Action Actor Greatness Himself Movie
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
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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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 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.
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When I was a kid, I was like everyone else: afraid of getting nuked. We had drills in school – Sweden was very close to the Soviet Union. There was definitely a lot of tension.
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Afraid Children Close Exercise Myself School Tension
Jebediah Woodley is one of those guys that when I’m sitting in my rocking chair one day, thinking back, I’ll remember that guy. He was a fun guy to play.
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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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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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Better Character End Play Real Try Yourself
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
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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