Jean-Claude Van Damme Quotes
Believe me - I've done very good stuff and very crazy stuff, and I don't regret the crazy stuff.
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.
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My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.
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Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.
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Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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The game has given me so much, and I tried to give so much back to the people who have showed me so much love day after day.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.
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I get a lot of people saying to me, 'Oh, you're the actor who plays the nutters,' and I'm not. I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.
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I don't think the Playboy brand has changed much at all - it's always been sophisticated and aspirational.
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I think the Tea Party movement is great. I think anybody who has been frustrated over the last few years with the Republicans and Democrats, when they were trying to grow government and have spending and we weren't focusing on creating jobs and get our private sector growing again, I think that's when people started to wake up.
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If apartheid is removed, then the violence that is necessary to maintain it will be removed along with the pressures from apartheid which create a violent response.
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I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
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Believe me - I've done very good stuff and very crazy stuff, and I don't regret the crazy stuff.
