Steven Seagal Quotes

You know what Bruno, I got some advice for you. I think you should, uh, be my motherfuckin' guest.

I think we're living in a world where society is very difficult.

There was a time when I thought I was doing a good thing with good guys for a good cause. Looking back, I think I really wanted to be a warrior.

Believe it or not, there are some things that I have written that would be kind of a dream to make. Hopefully, I will get to finance them ... There is something that I wrote called 'Demon's Flare' which would kind of be a dream come true.

Trust your doubt. Always fight for your beliefs.
That is the path beyond thought.

I was a very religious kid. I was raised as an Episcopalian.

My people are my people. They love me and I love them. I would not be here without them.

I'm gonna take you to the bank, Senator Trent. To the blood bank!

Everybody struggles to come up with stuff that no one has ever seen before. It's a fine line between trying to get creative and doing something that's new, fresh and different - yet, for me, something that's based in reality that would actually work in these situations. These are the keys to great fight scenes and action sequences.

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.

One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice.

For me, if God blessed me with that one great hit, I'm satisfied. But I've still got a lot in me, and I'd still like to get out there and tell a lot more stories cinematically. And God willing, I'll get the chance to do that.

I'm a hip-hop fan.

Most of the kids that I meet in the street are serious hardened criminals that I meet in the street, never had a mother and a father to love them, to protect them, to teach them right from wrong and lead them out of crime and gangs and stuff like that.

Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.

The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.

I think people are frustrated in this society, where predators prey upon normal, law-abiding citizens, and you never see justice in the courtroom. In my films, the predators don't get away with it.

Everybody certainly has the right to defend themselves. That's not to say that they should defy common sense by avoiding or diffusing confrontation. And that's very, very important.

People all over the world recognize me as a spiritual leader.

You do 1,000 interviews, 20 percent of every one is not what you said, or is twisted a little. If you multiply 20 by 1,000 you've got a lot of inaccuracies out there.

It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high.

I love music. I love filmmaking. I love law enforcement. I love doing a lot of the green work that I do, the charity work that I do, and I don't think that any one person has to be just one thing.

I was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood.

[Terry] Tussey has been my favorite gunsmith, but I'm also using other people for other things and giving other people chances because there's only so much Terry can do. He knows me to be the best shooter and the most finicky, so I'm really a pain in his ass.

Criminals usually prey on weakness. They can smell it.

You can take away the money and the fame. I don't look at myself as any of those things.

Action films are great, but an action film that has characters that are compelling and a story that people can care about is something even better. We love to see action heroes that are vulnerable, that are sensitive, that are family people, that are accessible.

I've always tried to avoid politics because most politicians that I know are quite dirty in terms of human dignity, ethics and morals.

You just realize that you can't turn a lefthand corner in a right posture without exposing some part of your body, and so it was really me just noticing the exposure I had, and it made me start doing and practicing the switching.

Try to find the path of least resistance and use it without harming others. Live with integrity and morality, not only with people but with all beings.

I used to have a gun made every month; I would get another pistol made that I would design. I'm very into the military and police stuff like that.

In general, we as police officers - at least the good police officers - like to look at each situation case by case and always pay close attention to the spirit of the law rather than the letter of the law.

What does it take to change the essence of a man?

I always hated being a child. I always felt like an adult trapped in a child's body.

The secret is not to act, but to be.

For me, in Buddhism there is a plethora of specific teachings that one can seek out and find for the individual dilemmas you may have.

I love Russia. Some people love Africa, some people love Mexico, some people love purple, the color purple. I love Russia, and I'm not scared to say it.

I think the more diversity that one has in his life, the happier he can be, as long as he is able to do whatever he chooses to do at that given time well.