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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

I’ve drank more beer and pissed more blood and banged more women than all you numb nuts put together!
DOLPH LUNDGREN

Blood Drink Myself Togetherness Woman
You get a bigger paycheck if you are the hero. There is something good about it.
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Big Goodness Hero Money Yourself
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 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
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
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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Enjoyment Fun Goodness Grade Happiness Health Myself Point Result Smart Study
I used to play drums when I was a kid, play the trombone.
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Fun Instrument Myself Talk
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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Help Lost Myself People Substance
I discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate.
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Art Discover Martial Myself
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
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
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
Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he’s done some good action movies too.
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Action Actor Greatness Himself Movie
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 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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Big Breathe Difference Meditation Myself Style
At 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.
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Battery Day Myself Planning Time
My 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.
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Champion Father Hard Mentor Myself Name Relationship
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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Greatness Level Life Love Mythic Obstacle Quality Struggle Yourself
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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Athlete Greatness Shape Time Work
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
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 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
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 discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate, and I became quite good at it, because I had something to prove. And more than anything, I needed to feel safe.
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Discover Feeling Goodness Martial Myself Need Quite Safety
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
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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Art Goodness Martial Mindset Myself Physical
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

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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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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