Top 65 Quotes & Sayings by Jean-Claude Van Damme
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
In the past, I was working out too heavy.
When I was 24, I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous, a movie star, all that stuff. I think it's cool. But it was not what I was searching for, really. It was more a delusion.
God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.
When I go on location, we have a schedule. And when you have a schedule, you know when you're not working, so I train very well on location. But I also train three or four times a week at home, but today I train differently than before.
You need at least six or seven years to understand the philosophy and concentration of karate to know to clean your spirit of everything and dedicate your mind and body to the sport.
I'm not complaining about doing 20-hour days. It's a joy to be able to work on yet another film.
I came back to my original wife. I came back to her after I made a few boo-boos in my life. Coming back to her was good for me, good for her and good for the children.
I've become 40, my audience is partly the same age.
Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.
I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is... you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that's a life.
My time of martial arts was traditional.
I like structure - like driving: go past the school on the street, stay on the right side, no hitting the car, go in right, you'll see a big church, stop and take a left, and you'll have it. By doing this I'm giving a structure of life, a path of light, and showing what happens between me and me, which is something very beautiful.
My body looks like 30 but my face looks like 50. But I cannot walk bare-chested in the streets. I like to do these movies to challenge myself physically.
It looks good when you see someone kicking at the age of 51 with no double. It's kinda cool for people to know that past 50 we can keep flexible.
What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast cuts.
What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real.
Life is short. I'm 47 years old. I've got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 10 years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I've made a ton of movies in my life, but so what?
I'm a big traveler these days. I was in Hong Kong. I live there. I was just in Belgium with my parents and now I'm on my way to North America. You will find me all over.
I'm one of the most sensitive human beings on Earth - and I know it.
But on average, I go to the gym about four or five times a week. Today, I'm so experienced in training - I'm actually listening to my body now. My body needs freedom. When I train I create serenity and I produce oxygen in my blood. It helps me to think better and relax. By training, you accentuate the problem.
You can create the perfect triceps by just pushing yourself off your wall.
Your body has enough weight for you to be in perfect condition just working against yourself.
It's time for me to do things I like so I will be happy, my wife will be happy, my friends will be happy. I just want to do something I'm proud of. It's time for me to change. I could sign with a company for 10 movies and I'm the king of video and so what?
Karate's a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further.
Believe me - I've done very good stuff and very crazy stuff, and I don't regret the crazy stuff.
There are some movie stars in Hollywood that are so scared, they also tell the reporter that they are recording them, in case there is something wrong with what they wrote about them in the papers.
The action films I will make in the future will be more believable and character-based. I am now on my second cycle of fame, and I want to make films that smell real and are truthful.
What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need.
When you finish a film, if you believed in your character, you're empty.
You know, I looked at my face in the mirror this morning, and I like being old. My face has more content and when I train in the gym now, I am not training to be strong or handsome - just better than I was yesterday. These days the race is just against myself.
I came to America with a dream and I made it. The dream became reality. America is built for success.
In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama.
I now truly believe it is impossible for me to make a bad movie.
I train, for me, very smartly. I don't train heavy, I do a lot of isometrics.
You have to believe what you say, and if you believe what you are saying, then acting is easy.
I love challenges. If you don't have any and can do whatever you want, then it's probably time to die.
A cookie has no soul, it's just a cookie. But before it was milk and eggs. And in eggs there's the potential for life.
All I wanted to do was to become famous, but then I found out that it was nothing special.
I really am a guy who can be black and white. I don't understand, too much, the gray. And truly I can go from one type of character to another type of character.
My last fight was more than 20 years ago. I'm not a fighter, I'm a lover. If somebody's going to speak bad about me, I will walk away. But if a guy like Steven Seagal slaps me once, I will slap him twice as hard. Life is full of violence.
Take your big stick, and your boyfriend, and go find a bus to catch.
I'm fast, why? Because I eat vegetables.
You just have to take a little salt, and since I'm doing that it's, like, BOOM! In one week, I felt it kick in. All the commotion around me, all the water around me, moving left and right around me, became like a lake.
A man may have the best of wealth, cars and fame. But there is nothing more precious in life that he will get than a woman's heart.
Showing myself nude from behind doesn't pose any problems, but from the front that's another story. I don't want to lose all my fans!
Obviously I've taken drugs.
If you phone a psychic and she doesn't answer the phone before it rings, hang up.
??If you work with a jackhammer during an earthquake, stop, otherwise you are working for nothing.
I am fascinated by air. If you remove the air from the sky, all the birds would fall to the ground. And all the planes, too.
My wife is not my best sexual partner, but she's good with the housework.
I don't want to be buried in the ground, rotting, with all those worms. What I would love is to have my body dropped where you have those big icebergs and the water is so cold and pure, to be eaten by a polar bear or a seal or an otter.
I am the Fred Astaire of karate.
I've had my ups and downs. My fair share of bumpy roads and heavy winds. That's what made me what I am today.
I'm one of the most sensitive human beings on Earth -- and I know it.
A pair of legs engineered to defy the laws of physics and a mindset to master the most epic of splits.
Air is beautiful, yet you cannot see it. It's soft, yet you cannot touch it. Air is a little like my brain.
According to statistics, one person out of five is disturbed. If there are four people around you who seem normal, that's not good.
If a product is more expensive than another one and more sustainable in ecology, consumers will not buy it. We're in a very sharp competitive market.
I love karate, it's like a bible to me. But deep inside I'm so I mean, I'm so sensitive.
??When I walk across my living room from my chimney to my window, it takes me 10 seconds, but for a bird it takes one second, and for oxygen zero seconds!
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