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.

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

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

I am the Fred Astaire of karate.

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.

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.

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.