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God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.
I love karate, it's like a bible to me. But, deep inside, I'm so I mean, I'm so sensitive.
I have to reinvent the brand name, because I'm a brand name. ArnoldSchwarzenneger knew how to do that.
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.
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.
Perhaps I shouldn't repeat this conversation.
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.
Believe me, I've done very good stuff and very crazy stuff, and I don't regret the crazy stuff.
What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need.
I like structure, like driving: go past the school on the street, stay on the right side, no hitting the car, go in the 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 showting what happens between me and me, which is something very beautiful.
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.
In the past, I was working out too heavy.
Karate's very boring sport, but when you know the technique, you can go further and further.
My body looks like thirty, but my face looks like fifty. But I cannot walk barechested in the streets. I like to do these movies to challenge myself physically.
I don't have a bad relationship. I'm fortyeightyearsold. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is dotdotdot 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.
I'm one of the most sensitive human beings on earth and I know it.
I came back to my original wife. I came back to her after I made a few "booboos" in my life. Coming back to her was good for me, good for her, and good for the children.
You have to believe what you say, and if you believe what you are saying, then acting is easy.
I came to American with a dream and I made it. The dream became reality. American is built for success.
I'm not complaining about doing twentyhour days. It's a joy to be able to work on yet another film.
It looks good when you see someone kicking at the age of fiftyone with no double. It's kinda cool for people to know that past fifty, we can keep flexible.
Life is short. I'm fortyseven years old. I've got tenyears to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those tenyears 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?
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.
But on average, I go to the gym about four or five times a week. Today, I'm so experience 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.
I now truly believe it is impossible for me to make a bad movie.
I train, for me, very smartly. I don't train heavy, I do a lot of isometrics.
I'm a big traveler these days. I was in HongKong. I live there. I was just in Belgium with my parents and now I'm on my way to NorthAmerica. You will find me all over.
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 ten movies and I'm the king of video, and so what?
My times of martial arts was traditional.
What really helps a guy to become an actionhero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast cuts.
When you finish a film, if you believed in your character, you're empty.
You can create the perfect triceps by just pushing yourself off your wall.
The action films I will make in the future will be move believable and "characterbased". I am now on my second cycle of fame and I want to make films that smell real and are truthful.
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.
Your body has enough weight for you to be in perfect condition just working against yourself.
There are some moviestars 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.
When I was twentyfour, I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous, a moviestar, all that stuff. I think it's cool. But it was not what I was searching for, really. It was more a delusion.
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.
God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.
I love karate, it's like a bible to me. But, deep inside, I'm so I mean, I'm so sensitive.
I have to reinvent the brand name, because I'm a brand name. ArnoldSchwarzenneger knew how to do that.
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.
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.
Perhaps I shouldn't repeat this conversation.
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.
Believe me, I've done very good stuff and very crazy stuff, and I don't regret the crazy stuff.
What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need.
I like structure, like driving: go past the school on the street, stay on the right side, no hitting the car, go in the 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 showting what happens between me and me, which is something very beautiful.
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.
In the past, I was working out too heavy.
Karate's very boring sport, but when you know the technique, you can go further and further.
My body looks like thirty, but my face looks like fifty. But I cannot walk barechested in the streets. I like to do these movies to challenge myself physically.
I don't have a bad relationship. I'm fortyeightyearsold. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is dotdotdot 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.
I'm one of the most sensitive human beings on earth and I know it.
I came back to my original wife. I came back to her after I made a few "booboos" in my life. Coming back to her was good for me, good for her, and good for the children.
You have to believe what you say, and if you believe what you are saying, then acting is easy.
I came to American with a dream and I made it. The dream became reality. American is built for success.
I'm not complaining about doing twentyhour days. It's a joy to be able to work on yet another film.
It looks good when you see someone kicking at the age of fiftyone with no double. It's kinda cool for people to know that past fifty, we can keep flexible.
Life is short. I'm fortyseven years old. I've got tenyears to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those tenyears 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?
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.
But on average, I go to the gym about four or five times a week. Today, I'm so experience 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.
I now truly believe it is impossible for me to make a bad movie.
I train, for me, very smartly. I don't train heavy, I do a lot of isometrics.
I'm a big traveler these days. I was in HongKong. I live there. I was just in Belgium with my parents and now I'm on my way to NorthAmerica. You will find me all over.
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 ten movies and I'm the king of video, and so what?
My times of martial arts was traditional.
What really helps a guy to become an actionhero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast cuts.
When you finish a film, if you believed in your character, you're empty.
You can create the perfect triceps by just pushing yourself off your wall.
The action films I will make in the future will be move believable and "characterbased". I am now on my second cycle of fame and I want to make films that smell real and are truthful.
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.
Your body has enough weight for you to be in perfect condition just working against yourself.
There are some moviestars 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.
When I was twentyfour, I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous, a moviestar, all that stuff. I think it's cool. But it was not what I was searching for, really. It was more a delusion.
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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