Jean-Claude Van Damme Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Jean-Claude Van Damme:

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

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

Jean-Claude Van Damme

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.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast cuts.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

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.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

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

Jean-Claude Van Damme

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

Jean-Claude Van Damme

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.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

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

Jean-Claude Van Damme

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.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

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

Jean-Claude Van Damme

My time of martial arts was traditional.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

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.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

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.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

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.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

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

Jean-Claude Van Damme

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.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

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?

Jean-Claude Van Damme

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

Jean-Claude Van Damme

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

Jean-Claude Van Damme

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

Jean-Claude Van Damme

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.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

Your body has enough weight for you to be in perfect condition just working against yourself.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

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.

Jean-Claude Van Damme