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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.

Dolph Lundgren

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.
DOLPH LUNDGREN

Death Desperate Existence Life Mortal Myself Scare Thinking
One day you’ll understand the sheer awesomeness that is me.
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Awesome Day Myself Understand
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
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
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
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.
DOLPH LUNDGREN

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
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.
DOLPH LUNDGREN

Afraid Children Close Exercise Myself School Tension
I discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate.
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Art Discover Martial Myself
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
I think by planning an exercise regime, your diet follows to some extent.
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Diet Exercise Follow Planning Yourself
Stallone is a pretty tough director. You don’t mess with him.
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Director Himself Mess Tough Yourself
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
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
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.
DOLPH LUNDGREN

Clothes Fashion Feeling Myself Right Young
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

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