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I am the Fred Astaire of karate.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
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Jean-Claude Van Damme
Age: 63
Born: 1960
Born: October 18
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Air is beautiful, yet you cannot see it. It's soft, yet you cannot touch it. Air is a little like my brain.
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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.
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If you phone a psychic and she doesn't answer the phone before it rings, hang up.
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I'm fast, why? Because I eat vegetables.
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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.
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You have to believe what you say, and if you believe what you are saying, then acting is easy.
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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.
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Take your big stick, and your boyfriend, and go find a bus to catch.
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You can create the perfect triceps by just pushing yourself off your wall.
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A pair of legs engineered to defy the laws of physics and a mindset to master the most epic of splits.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Obviously I've taken drugs.
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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.
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In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama.
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Karate's a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further.
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What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast cuts.
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