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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.

Dolph Lundgren

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.
DOLPH LUNDGREN

Movie People Stand Stare Yourself
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.
DOLPH LUNDGREN

Act Comfortable Deliver Edition Feeling Ideas Movie Performance Room Yourself
Film is about what you are thinking. It’s about what’s inside.
DOLPH LUNDGREN

Movie Thinking 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.
DOLPH LUNDGREN

Greatness Level Life Love Mythic Obstacle Quality Struggle 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 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.
DOLPH LUNDGREN

Crazy Fun Personality Rule Stick Yourself
I used to play drums when I was a kid, play the trombone.
DOLPH LUNDGREN

Fun Instrument Myself Talk
Because he’s a character who’s looking for his own identity, [He-Man is] an interesting role for an actor.
DOLPH LUNDGREN

Actor Character Himself Identity Role
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.
DOLPH LUNDGREN

Director Life Normal Ordinary Religious Spiritual
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.
DOLPH LUNDGREN

Audience Character Neutral Play Straight Thinking Yourself
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.
DOLPH LUNDGREN

Help Lost Myself People Substance
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.
DOLPH LUNDGREN

Deliver Instant Myself Play Role
I’ve never had a good line. Well, maybe ‘I must break you’.
DOLPH LUNDGREN

Break Goodness Line Myself Yourself
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
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.
DOLPH LUNDGREN

Aura Energy Exhausting Learning Pay Radiation Thinking Tough Yourself
It takes nine months for a baby to develop, it takes nine months to develop a character.
DOLPH LUNDGREN

Born Character Development Time

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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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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