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 LUNDGRENFirst 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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Having bodyguards is just part of being famous, I think.
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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 discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate.
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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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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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It takes nine months for a baby to develop, it takes nine months to develop a character.
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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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I’ve drank more beer and pissed more blood and banged more women than all you numb nuts put together!
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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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Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he’s done some good action movies too.
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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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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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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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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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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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Film is about what you are thinking. It’s about what’s inside.
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One day you’ll understand the sheer awesomeness that is me.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I’ve never had a good line. Well, maybe ‘I must break you’.
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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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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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