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" I've become 40, my audience is partly the same age. "
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Same Age
Same
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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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" 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? "
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" 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. "
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" 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? "
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" Believe me - I've done very good stuff and very crazy stuff, and I don't regret the crazy stuff. "
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Done
Believe
Crazy
" Your body has enough weight for you to be in perfect condition just working against yourself. "
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" 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. "
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Life
Cool
Think
" 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. "
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Eyes
Truth
Believe
" You have to believe what you say, and if you believe what you are saying, then acting is easy. "
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Saying
Acting
Believe
" I'm not complaining about doing 20-hour days. It's a joy to be able to work on yet another film. "
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Film
Complaining
Work
" 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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Me
America
Find
" My time of martial arts was traditional. "
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My Time
Arts
Martial Arts
" I train, for me, very smartly. I don't train heavy, I do a lot of isometrics. "
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Heavy
Very
Lot
" 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. "
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Real
Me
Kind
" I now truly believe it is impossible for me to make a bad movie. "
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Believe
Bad
Movie
" 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. "
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Beautiful
Path
Past
" Karate's a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further. "
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Technique
Boring
Go
" 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. "
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" I'm one of the most sensitive human beings on Earth - and I know it. "
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Sensitive
Know
Most
" God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple. "
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Take Care
Body
Care
" In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama. "
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Film
You
Dramatic
" I came to America with a dream and I made it. The dream became reality. America is built for success. "
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Reality
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" 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. "
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Tell