Jean-Claude Van Damme Quotes

You can create the perfect triceps by just pushing yourself off your wall.

God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.

If you phone a psychic and she doesn't answer the phone before it rings, hang up.

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.

According to statistics, one person out of five is disturbed. If there are four people around you who seem normal, that's not good.

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.

Air is beautiful, yet you cannot see it. It's soft, yet you cannot touch it. Air is a little like my brain.

I love challenges. If you don't have any and can do whatever you want, then it's probably time to die.

A pair of legs engineered to defy the laws of physics and a mindset to master the most epic of splits.

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.

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.

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.

••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!

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.

I love karate, it's like a bible to me. But deep inside I'm so I mean, I'm so sensitive.

I'm fast, why? Because I eat vegetables.

••If you work with a jackhammer during an earthquake, stop, otherwise you are working for nothing.

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!

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.

Obviously I've taken drugs.

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.

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.

Everybody understands a slap in the face. In Japan, Belgium, or America, a punch is a punch. Comedy will be different in Europe or America or Japan, so my movies are very international.

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.

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'm one of the most sensitive human beings on Earth -- and I know it.

All I wanted to do was to become famous, but then I found out that it was nothing special.

In the past, I was working out too heavy.

I'm not complaining about doing 20-hour days. It's a joy to be able to work on yet another film.

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.

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'm not a movie star. I'm a brand name. Van Damme is like Levi's. I go on vacation, and everywhere I go, people love me for my name, not for my movies.

Karate's a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further.

I'm lucky, because I started action movies at the age of 25. Now I'm 47, and I'm still kicking like a mule, and I'm as flexible as before.

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.

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.

I've become 40, my audience is partly the same age.

My wife is not my best sexual partner, but she's good with the housework.

I now truly believe it is impossible for me to make a bad movie.

I am the Fred Astaire of karate.

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.

I train, for me, very smartly. I don't train heavy, I do a lot of isometrics.

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.

Believe me - I've done very good stuff and very crazy stuff, and I don't regret the crazy stuff.

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.

In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama.

You have to believe what you say, and if you believe what you are saying, then acting is easy.

My time of martial arts was traditional.

Life is short. I'm years old. I've got years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 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?