Karate's a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further.

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

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

God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.

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 experienced 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.

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?

Life is short. I'm 47 years old. I've got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 10 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?

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?

I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is... 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 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.

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.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.

I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.

I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.

...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Trust your heart rather than your head.

I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.

The truth brings no man a fortune.

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.

There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.

We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

A born king is a very rare being.

It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me.

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.

She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must have the shoulders of Hercules.

Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.