JCVD on how to be successful in life
JCVD: “So more you ask yourself what I want to do, more that seed will become like almost like a lemon and you will start to kind of have like a voice inside of you.”
MMA’s own Steph Daniels secured an interview with Jean-Claude Van Damme for BE; how cool is that?!? I am not a jealous guy, but I am wicked jealous – Bloodsport alone launched more MMA careers than Enter the Dragon.
Daniels asked JCVD how he managed to maintain several projects at once, requiring near constant travel worldwide.
Before I train, I get butterfly like it’s the first time I train. And before every shot, it’s like I’ve got a butterfly. What excitement to know that it’s action and nobody exists!
I’m too intense. Every time I make a movie with somebody, because I’ve got so much to say and I like to be involved in everything, some people don’t like that. But I think it’s cool. That’s me. I cannot change.
(IN BALANCING A LOT OF PROJECTS)
If I don’t so that, I don’t think I will be in good health. I mean, every time I leave and I go somewhere, that’s where I start to train and be happy with people. And life is so short, and it’s good to go around the world. It’s a phenomenon to me.
The guy I love is Depardieu…He cannot stop working. Basically, the body is falling down, really the body is falling down. And being surprised that the head is still standing. So this is Depardieu. And it’s the same with guys like Stallone and it’s the same with the big movie stars. They’re hungry. They’ve got that specific idea of wanting to do something so they have that tunnel vision and that’s why you have so many successful people.
So to be successful in life, you’ve got to ask yourself first what do you want to do. It’s going to take some time because you don’t know yourself. You need a couple of years to know how you walk, how you think, how you this, how you that…At the same time, ask, ask yourself. “What do I want to do?” Because school will give you the rules and good advice. But school will not develop your instinct. And the instinct is inside you. So more you ask yourself what I want to do, more that seed will become like almost like a lemon and you will start to kind of have like a voice inside of you…like a feeling of knowing yourself. And then you’ll target your dream. When you feel that your dream will be come a reality, it’s out there. You know when you’re going to reach it. When you talk and you walk like the dream, you’re representing the dream, then you become a star.
Trailer for JCVD latest film, Pound of Flesh.