I do weights a few times a week. Not a lot of heavy weights. I do it just to keep my muscle toned. With the martial arts, I am doing pretty basic stuff. I do some sparring. If I get a chance, I will go swimming or running in-between. I keep in pretty good shape between films.

Dolph Lundgren

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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.

Dolph Lundgren

mind trying art

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

Dolph Lundgren

nuts beer blood

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.

Dolph Lundgren

church spiritual running

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

Dolph Lundgren

sheer awesomeness one-day

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

guy giving thinking

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

Dolph Lundgren

smart hate beautiful

I suppose I will try to enjoy my life now while I have it. Who knows what's going to happen in the future?

Dolph Lundgren

enjoy happens trying

As you get older, it's important to have goals. When you're a kid you have them, but other people can set them for you, such as your parents, your school... so, as you get older it's nice to have your own goals, which don't have to do with being more famous, or being in bigger movies, or making more money. Those things kind of corrupt your soul.

Dolph Lundgren

nice kids school

Everybody's life has some mythical quality. You struggle against obstacles, you fight to get to a higher level and there are great loves.

Dolph Lundgren

great-love fighting struggle

I like being the villian. I don't know if it has to do with my personality. You get to have a lot more fun as a villian. You don't have to stick to the rules. You can be a lot crazier. You can go off the rails.

Dolph Lundgren

sticks personality fun

Hollywood is great for entertaining people, it's a wonderful business but it's make-believe, you must remember that. That's one of the most important things to remember and the distinction in your own life, otherwise people get lost in their own fame, and it makes them unhappy.

Dolph Lundgren

important believe people

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

Dolph Lundgren

wells lines break

Having bodyguards is just part of being famous, I think.

Dolph Lundgren

bodyguard fame thinking

Working with Jean-Claude 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.

Dolph Lundgren

fighting real fun

I would think that the drumstick is probably pretty good. Because you can put that anywhere. If you are a strong guy, you can put it in the throat, the nose, the mouth, the ear. It's also easily concealed. The guitar is pretty good, but you have to break it. And that's pretty difficult.

Dolph Lundgren

guitar strong thinking

I know what its like to direct. You become a more considerate actor. After you have directed, you understand what is going on. You can't help but think of the material as a director. You do come up with suggestions. You come up with shortcuts that you weren't aware of before. You try to be helpful to the director if he has a lot on his hands.

Dolph Lundgren

trying hands thinking

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

pain new-york hero

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.

Dolph Lundgren

play directors school

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.

Dolph Lundgren

one-day bed trying

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.

Dolph Lundgren

abuse substance people