Dolph Lundgren Quotes

I really admire actors who have time, because time is really the greatest luxury for an actor to live with a character, to develop a walk and a talk, or to listen to tape if you're playing a real character. But without time you're really just forced to make quick choices and move on and hope that the spaghetti sticks against the wall.

The better the acting is, the harder it is to see what the process is.

So many actors get caught up in their technique, and to be honest, I see it really getting in the way. I see them forcing things. I definitely do my best work when I'm free of that. But I think as an actor, I work really hard in preparing the roles. I spend like 90 percent of my waking moments walking around thinking: "What does this character do? What is his relationship with so-and-so?" Always, really. Too much!

When you start and you're taking the character seriously, it's going to lead down a variety of paths.

I'm certainly not one of those actors who remain in a dark place the entire time in order to be doing the scene. I sort of come in and out of it. It can be to the detriment of my performance sometimes!

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

I think sometimes I'm more fond of doing the research for the character because you learn so much. Sometimes shooting is really difficult because you wake up early and you're always hurrying. And sometimes I don't know what I'm doing. I'm here and there.

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

Some actors get by with behaving, not acting. You've got to sell the effect. I act more in the 'Nightmare' movies because it's not like me. I'm acting, not reacting.

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.

Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.

What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.

Preparation is definitely important, but it depends on the kinds of roles I do. Like, I completely identify with my character in 'Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani.' I had to be myself and I didn't have to actually prepare for it.

If I have an audition, I go to the audition in character. I'm in character when I walk in the room. I mean, I'm still sweet to everyone, but I'm very much the character.

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

Since I was from the theater, that's how I learned how to go through the process of being a character. That's how I learned, and that's what I was comfortable doing. And then, the first feature films, I'm sure I was no fun because I did not want to be spontaneous in that filmic way that really can work for you.

There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

I'm always practicing lines, researching, trying to be fresh, and fully trying to become the characters I play. That's how I roll.

Acting is not just impersonating your character.

I always appreciate hard work, and every actor has a different process. I appreciate focus.

I like to prepare for my roles well, so you can call me a method actor to an extent.

What happens off-screen definitely informs your performance on screen.

When I'm acting, I just come up with people I've known, and I stick with it.

The number one job of an actor is to be a character and never let the acting show.