Jean-Claude Van Damme Quotes

Some people take me as being a rowdy, honky-tonk hero type. Some people see me as a quiet person. I guess I can be either one, you know, at any moment.

It's very nice to do a little bit of the darkness after a little bit of the lightness. Variety is the spice of life. I enjoy both, and hopefully, I will be able to do as big a variety as I possibly can.

I live in the extremes.

The New Day has been the New Day because what we have done. We can be entertaining but then we can get serious, too.

I think you have to be flexible above all as an actor; different characters have different demands, actors that you work with are different in their approach, or how you get along or don't get along with them.

From Kelsey, I have learned among many other things the value of turning on a dime and how you can have an extremely funny and extremely poignant moment with absolutely no separation in between... and sometimes in the same moment.

It's great to be able to have your feet in both worlds. I wouldn't want to be just stuck in one or the other.

In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that.

I'm hard to pin down. I tend to look different in films.

Like a typical Gemini I'm changeable, I can be two different types of people. I can be very outgoing, but sometimes very shy.

Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny.

As an actor, I'll play anything.

I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished.

To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.

I'm one extreme or the other. I'm not good at doing moderation.

In the beginning it was all black and white.

I am a Gemini and can adapt to most atmospheres. You get two for the price of one when you are a Gemini.

Sometimes I'm really funny, sometimes I'm quiet, sometimes I'm shy, but I'm constantly changing.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

I take every possible side.

I'm happy to try on as many characters as I can.

I want everyone to understand that as an actor you need to be able to play different roles, be versatile even in terms of your personality.

If someone called me for a role, whatever it was, I'd do it.

When I must be mean, I'm mean. When I can be nice, I am nice.

There's many sides to a coin and one person can in fact do a lot of different things.