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.
My wife is not my best sexual partner, but she’s good with the housework.
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.
I came to America with a dream and I made it. The dream became reality. America is built for success.
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.
I now truly believe it is impossible for me to make a bad movie.
Believe me – I’ve done very good stuff and very crazy stuff, and I don’t regret the crazy stuff.
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.
I am the Fred Astaire of karate.
I love karate, it’s like a bible to me. But deep inside I’m so I mean, I’m so sensitive.
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.
Karate’s a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further.
What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need.
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.
The action films I will make in the future will be more believable and character-based. I am now on my second cycle of fame, and I want to make films that smell real and are truthful.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.