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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

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.
DOLPH LUNDGREN

Expression Learning Myself Planning Start Study
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
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
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
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
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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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
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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Actor Character Himself Identity Role
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
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
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’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 drank more beer and pissed more blood and banged more women than all you numb nuts put together!
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Blood Drink Myself Togetherness Woman
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
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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Creation Exploration Fly Memories Work Yourself
Having bodyguards is just part of being famous, I think.
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Body Famous Guard Myself Thinking
I was very sickly as a kid and had a lot of allergies, so martial arts gave me the chance to feel strong.
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Allergy Chance Children Feeling Sick Strong
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
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
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 wanted to become an engineer, or get a masters in business. But I had the opportunity to do films when I was about 25 and it was a great way to express myself.
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Business Education Expression Greatness Master Myself Opportunity
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.
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Deliver Instant Myself Play Role
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.
DOLPH LUNDGREN

Blank Easy Himself Page Success Writing
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
I’ve actually always been into suits. But I never really wore them, I guess because I was too young and it didn’t feel right.
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Clothes Fashion Feeling Myself Right Young
I discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate.
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Art Discover Martial Myself
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

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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