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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

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
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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Competition Father Lose Martial Myself Pressure Teen
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Camera Movie Myself
It takes nine months for a baby to develop, it takes nine months to develop a character.
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Born Character Development Time
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’ve never had a good line. Well, maybe ‘I must break you’.
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Break Goodness Line Myself Yourself
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
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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Himself Play Remember Rock Thinking Weapon
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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Addiction Art Feeling Goodness Martial Myself Time Training
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 think by planning an exercise regime, your diet follows to some extent.
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Diet Exercise Follow Planning Yourself
I used to play drums when I was a kid, play the trombone.
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Fun Instrument Myself Talk
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
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
Having bodyguards is just part of being famous, I think.
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Body Famous Guard Myself Thinking
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 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
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
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
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
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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Movie People Stand Stare Yourself

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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