Jean-Claude Van Damme Quotes

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

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'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.

I am the Fred Astaire of karate.

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.

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

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.

••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!

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

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

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

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

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

We are here to condemn the Palestinian occupation of the territories, but also to condemn the recent racist attack in France, against both Jews and Arabs.

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!

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

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

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?

Take your big stick, and your boyfriend, and go find a bus to catch.

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.

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

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.

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

Obviously I've taken drugs.

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.

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.

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'm fast, why? Because I eat vegetables.

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

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.

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

I came to America with a dream and I made it. The dream became reality. America is built for success.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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