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God gave me a great body
and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.
I've
become 40, my audience is partly the same age.
I've
got a talent to act. No matter what any newspapers say about me I'm one
of the most sensitive human beings on earth.
In
an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in
the drama.
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.
What
really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of
the movie. All those fast cuts.
If you have a decent body why not show it?
I'm very proud of my butt."
I am the Fred Astaire of karate.
In an action film you act in the action. If
it's a dramatic film you act in the drama.
I've become 40, my audience is partly the
same age.
God gave me a great body and it's my duty to
take care of my physical temple.
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
I took his (Alex Van Damme) name, in fact
from his father because his father sent me for the first time in Hong
Kong to be a picture model. I'm not enough tall to be a catwalk model,
plus too big for that, and we became very good friends and I took his
name as an honor. Because my name, by the way, is too complicated, it's
Van Veren Berg, so in America it sounds like "Van Varen Berg"
(said with American accent). So Van Damme it's punchy, short, and clear.
- [on adopting the name 'Van Damme']
Time Cop could have been a very profitable
franchise, but those idiots chose instead to sell the rights to
television. That could have also been the case with Bloodsport, but they
settled instead on second-rate kick-boxers for the sequels. - [on his
famous films sequels]
An action hero has to be always in shape
mentally and physically. People, sometimes they believe Sly, Arnold,
myself, we're athletes, you cannot make mistakes. But Hollywood
forgives, I guess.
Ten, 15 years ago, Sly, Arnold, those guys,
were well-built; of course, they had to act and find good scripts, but
today action heroes don't have to be Mr. Muscles. What really helps a
guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All
those fast cuts.
