Dolph Lundgren Quotes Page 2

“I've drank more beer and pissed more blood and banged more women than all you numb nuts put together!”

“I've never had a good line. Well, maybe 'I must break you'.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It takes nine months for a baby to develop, it takes nine months to develop a character.”

“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.”

“Life is stranger than fiction. It's nice to have stuff that people don't know about. And it helps when you read a bad review. You can go, "This guy doesn't have me figured out." There's more mystery to you than they understand.”

“Movies are a powerful medium. People think you are your character. I've had plenty of people who think I'm Drago. They don't know about the chemical engineering part of my personality. They don't know about the geek part of my personality.”

“My dad was in the Swedish armed forces, he was always reading up on different weapons from the Americans and Soviets. When I was a kid, I was in bed looking at his books, reading about the Red Army. So I was very aware of it. I had an interest in military matters ever since.”

“My problem is that people get intimidated by someone big and beautiful like me. They hate to think I can be smart as well.”

“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.”

“Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he's done some good action movies too.”

“No one can believe I might have a brain. Because I'm really tall, I'm really blonde, I have big muscles, and kill people for a living. There you go. If anybody's going to be assumed to be stupid, it's me. I don't know what my IQ score is, but I did study for five years at college. And I'm proud of my chemical engineering degree. I haven't done anything with it, but it's a card up your sleeve for later in life. It's nice to have, just in case.”

“On the one hand, you have these huge budget films that cost millions of dollars. They are effects driven, they don't have well known actors in them, and they are making money. Well, some of them are. One the other hand, you have Stallone and Statham, and guys like DeNiro and Pacino, and Costner, who are all trying to make movies about real people. They are interested in character driven projects.”

“One day you'll understand the sheer awesomeness that is me.”

“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.”

“Sports became a way for me to find my personality and identity in life. I had a lot of problems as a young kid like we all do with my own confidence, trying to grow up, and become a man and whatnot. Sports helped me get there. It helped me get my role in Rocky IV. It has helped me ever since in my movies and dealing with a lot of hard times between pictures and my life. I would say it's the one thing that's kept me going over the years.”

“Stallone is a great writer. He wrote one of the best screenplays ever written. Rocky. It is one of the biggest classics of all time. I think in the past, he was shying away from writing his own stuff, because there is a lot of pressure when you star in something that you write.”

“Stallone is a pretty tough director. You don't mess with him.”

“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.”

“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.”

“When I got cast in 'Rocky IV', I had never seen a film camera before. And here I was in this boxing movie.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Working with Jean-Claude Van Damme is a lot of fun. Because he's a great actor who also happens to be a fighter. That combination doesn't usually come together anymore. Usually, you have to fight the stunt double and then act against the actor. In his case, you are fighting with a real guy. It takes a minute to get used to that. Because it doesn't happen any more.”

“You get a bigger paycheck if you are the hero. There is something good about it.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”