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Quotes : Page 1
About.com Interview
On Mummy 3:-
"I don't know what dollar amount it has to make but I assume domestically in the states, if it makes 100, 150 million [dollars], there'll definitely be a third one. I'll definitely come back if Steve Sommers is involved. He really is, with all respect to Brendan, Steve really is the star of this movie. He is The Mummy. He's just such a freak and carries the mantle. "
On Con Express :-
"I play a Russian guy which I had a lot of fun with. I wore some fantastic outfits, just like a Russian that had watched too much of Dynasty and then comes to American and buys some great clothes and stuff but like 70s stuff, so it was fun.
On Darkman :-
"I know that Sam Raimi and [producer] Rob [Tapert] have finished the Xena opus. Maybe we'll do one. It's the kind of thing we should really do like three a year for HBO or something. It would be really cool to do one every three or four months and get some guest stars in and do some crazy stuff, because now with the technology we can really do some cool face stuff and people melting away and all that stuff."
On his being a non-bandaged Mummy:-
"With all the technology and stuff today, I just don't think that kids would buy that.That's one of the things about the first Mummy movies that always amazed me, looking back at it now, why people were scared of the mummy. Surely you could just run away from this guy that's walking around the neighborhood in pajamas and bandages. It would be easy just to run away from him, so we had to hype it up a bit and create a whole new mummy."
On TMR:-
"He said he's been studying a lot of the sequels, the successful ones, and the ones that are really good are the ones that are the same but different. If you look at this movie, it's really true. It's the same but different. Instead of a wall of sand, there's a wall of water."
On a letter from a fan:-
"I received a letter from a suburban housewife that wants to sacrifice her children to Im-Ho-Tep. It's a little scary. People really get into this character. It's really true. I get some interesting letters from all over the world."
On the language AV speaks in the Mummy movies:-
"It's like ancient Latin. When we speak Latin now, we think it's what it sounded like but we're not really sure. The problem with a lot of this Egyptian stuff is that words like 'Look out' becomes like 10 lines. Steve [Sommers] would go, 'Lose the first four words, say that word and then say the last word.' So it becomes 'Yereh!' and that's 'Look out.' Then we'll do take two and I'll go 'Hakareh!' I'll just make something up. Bob, the editor, he hates the Egyptian because he'll cut to one scene and I say something completely different. He'll cut another angle and I say something else. I used to make them crazy. Patricia [Velazquez] was very good. She learned the stuff perfectly and she would repeat it time after time."
BBC Interview, May 11th, 2001.
On Mummy Returns:-
"Oh it’s a relief to do movies," Vosloo smiles, "especially ones like this because you get to be like a little kid again and run around and play in this great adventure. I had a wonderful time."
Audiences get a chance to see Imhotep’s softer side, as we realise the depth of his love for Anck-Su-Namun in The Mummy Returns.
"I’m so thankful that all that stuff made it to the screen," the actor nods, "because a lot of the time studio executives say that there’s no time, or ask why we should feel sympathy for this bad guy".
"I joke that I’m the romantic lead in the movie, I just happened to pick the wrong girl. Imhotep is kind of the tragic villain, I guess, and a lot of people have come up to me and said I was hating you, but then I reach a point when I was feeling sorry for you too. It's those different facets that help explain why this film is such a succes."
Huisgenoot, May 31, 2001. Courtesy AVRP.
"When I arrived in Hollywood in 1989, I was always dreaming about what I'd buy with my first big pay cheque," tells the 39-years old star. "And when I got it, there was suddenly nothing that I needed in my life. If I have a book to read, then I'm happy."
"I have a Toyota pick-up truck [I'm not sure if this is the correct English word for it. I know Americans use a different word] Sylvia says it's what the garden-service people drive in Los Angeles. I don't care. It's all I need." "I think it has something to do with my background," he says. "I remember how I used to visit friends and family on their farms when I was a child. The uncle always had the pick-up and the aunt drove the luxurious car.
"Sylvia is all I need. I don't understand where men get the stamina or time to have relationships with other women. In any case, I can't have a relationship with Pamela Anderson. It would interfere with my reading time," he jokes.
"Maybe at 60 or 70 I'll regret not doing more. My life is actually very dull. But I believe that I won't have regrets one day."
"Life in Hollywood can be so meaningless," he says. "I could also attend every glamourous event I'm invited to. Gucci will dress me and my photo will be everywhere. But what's the point? I only want to make movies."
"I have always said that I would rather have ten one bedroomed houses than one with ten bedrooms. I would like to have my house in Santa Monica, an apartment in Cape Town and a farm. I don't need more."
On Mummy Returns
"The atmosphere on the sets of the Mummy-movies was wonderful, he says. "The last time I enjoyed working so much was when I made Meisie van Suidwes with Regardt van den Bergh. He spoiled me for the rest of my life."
"The Rock is a gentle, intelligent man," Arnold says, "nothing like the wrestler he pretends to be."
"I spend the whole movie in a g-string the size of a postage stamp," he says. "And it's not pleasant for anyone to see their backside across the whole movie screen. Maybe if you're 19, but I'll be 39 on June 16. I had to drink less beer and eat less of my wife's delicious Mexican food."
About Red phone
"It's about a group that travels around the world to try and prevent violence," he says. "It will also be filmed in London, Berlin and Vienna."
Suntimes Interview, 17th June, 2001.
"I'll never really get used to talking about myself," he says. "These interviews are so weird. I know people hope I'll say I'm f***ing Pamela Anderson or I have to shave my butt or that I was caught sleeping with a hooker, stuff like that. That's what people want to hear, isn't it?"
"I used to sit in our station wagon in my pyjamas watching movies. My favourite was Thunder Alley . I watched it seven nights a week."
A few years ago he was just another South African trying to make it in Hollywood, too poor to afford a place to stay. "I bought a Kombi I slept in and joined a 24-hour gym so I could wash. All the inspiration I ever needed was a phone call from a producer."
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