Best Van Damme Quotes & Sayings

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

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

As a kid, I was heavily into martial arts and wanted to be the next Jean-Claude Van Damme. — Chris Daughtry

All I wanted to do was to become famous, but then I found out that it was nothing special. — Jean-Claude Van Damme

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? — 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

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. — 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

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. — Jean-Claude Van Damme

You can create the perfect triceps by just pushing yourself off your wall. — Jean-Claude Van Damme

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. — Jean-Claude Van Damme

Air is beautiful, yet you cannot see it. It's soft, yet you cannot touch it. Air is a little like my brain. — Jean-Claude Van Damme

I was an 80's/90's baby so you went to the movie theater every weekend and there was one on, whether it was Stallone, Van Damme, Seagal or Schwarzenegger himself. — Channing Tatum

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. — Jean-Claude Van Damme

My bedroom was plastered with pictures of Van Damme. My mother was worried about me. Most teenage boys have half-naked women on their walls, and I had Jean-Claude. — Scott Adkins

I'm as good as Jean-Claude Van Damme when it comes to martial arts. Sounding a little cocky aren't I — Talisa Soto

..If you work with a jackhammer during an earthquake, stop, otherwise you are working for nothing. — Jean-Claude Van Damme

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

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. — 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

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

At the very last moment, just before its lips claimed hers, its grip on her face relaxed slightly and she did the only thing she could think of: She head-butted it. Snapped her head back, then forward again, and bashed it square in the face as hard as she could. So hard, in fact, that it made her woozy and gave her an instant migraine, making her wonder how Jean-Claude Van Damme always managed to coolly continue fighting after such a stunt. Obviously, movies lied. — Karen Marie Moning

I love challenges. If you don't have any and can do whatever you want. Then it's probably time to die. — Jean-Claude Van Damme

A pair of legs engineered to defy the laws of physics and a mindset to master the most epic of splits. — 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 was a big fan of Jean-Claude Van-Damme growing up, and I always wanted to be a martial artist 'cause of him. — Georges St-Pierre

What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need. — 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 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. — Jean-Claude Van Damme

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

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. — 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