Top 50 Jean-Claude Van Damme Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “According to statistics, one person out of five is disturbed. If there are four people around you who seem normal, that’s not good.”

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

2. “A cookie has no soul, it’s just a cookie. But before it was milk and eggs. And in eggs there’s the potential for life.”

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

3. “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

4. “If you phone a psychic and she doesn’t answer the phone before it rings, hang up.”

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

5. “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

6. “God gave me a great body and it’s my duty to take care of my physical temple.”

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

7. “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.”

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

8. “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

9. “I am fascinated by air. If you remove the air from the sky, all the birds would fall to the ground. And all the planes, too.”

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

10. “Obviously I’ve taken drugs.”

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

11. “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

12. “I came to America with a dream and I made it. The dream became reality. America is built for success.”

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

13. “You can create the perfect triceps by just pushing yourself off your wall.”

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

14. “Showing myself nude from behind doesn’t pose any problems, but from the front that’s another story. I don’t want to lose all my fans!”

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

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15. “I’m fast, why? Because I eat vegetables.”

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

16. “I train, for me, very smartly. I don’t train heavy, I do a lot of isometrics.”

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

17. “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.”

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

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18. “I am the Fred Astaire of karate.”

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

19. “You have to believe what you say, and if you believe what you are saying, then acting is easy.”

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

20. “Your body has enough weight for you to be in perfect condition just working against yourself.”

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

21. “You just have to take a little salt, and since I’m doing that it’s, like, BOOM! In one week, I felt it kick in. All the commotion around me, all the water around me, moving left and right around me, became like a lake.”

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

22. “I now truly believe it is impossible for me to make a bad movie.”

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

23. “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.”

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

24. “I’m one of the most sensitive human beings on Earth – and I know it.”

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

25. “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

26. “My wife is not my best sexual partner, but she’s good with the housework.”

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

27. “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

28. “We are here to condemn the Palestinian occupation of the territories, but also to condemn the recent racist attack in France, against both Jews and Arabs.”

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

29. “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

30. “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.”

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

31. “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

32. “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?”

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

33. “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

34. “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

35. “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.”

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

36. “Karate’s a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further.”

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

37. “Believe me – I’ve done very good stuff and very crazy stuff, and I don’t regret the crazy stuff.”

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

38. “I love karate, it’s like a bible to me. But deep inside I’m so I mean, I’m so sensitive.”

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

39. “I really am a guy who can be black and white. I don’t understand, too much, the gray. And truly I can go from one type of character to another type of character.”

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

40. “My time of martial arts was traditional.”

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

41. “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

42. “Life is short. I’m years old. I’ve got years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 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

43. “All I wanted to do was to become famous, but then I found out that it was nothing special.”

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

44. “It looks good when you see someone kicking at the age of 51 with no double. It’s kinda cool for people to know that past 50 we can keep flexible.”

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

45. “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

46. “In an action film you act in the action. If it’s a dramatic film you act in the drama.”

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

47. “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

48. “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.”

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

49. “What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need.”

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

50. “I’ve become 40, my audience is partly the same age.”

— Jean-Claude Van Damme