Steven Seagal Quotes

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

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.

It is a lot harder now to be a police officer than what it used to be.

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

One must first learn to heal people to be great. To hurt people is easy.

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

As a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I'm trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger.

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

The secret is not to act, but to be.

My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.

I myself am a very nonviolent person and only resort to violence when I absolutely have to.

Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood, or the way they were raised.

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

I love getting out on the streets and helping people.

I've been a police officer for over 20 years, and I've investigated murders and all kinds of different crimes.

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

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

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.

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

I was born with a serious spiritual consciousness and for many years studied different paths.

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.

For a while, I had this uncontrollable urge - this addiction to danger. Now I look back and I think, 'Gee, what an idiot. I was risking my life just for the sensation of it.'

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

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.

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

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.

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.

My CIA godfather told me he'd never heard any American speak Japanese so well.

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.

I have six children and I love all my kids more than anything in the world.

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.

All the movies that I have done I have not been in control of. Sometimes there is a contractual situation where you go to the studio, and they kind of tell you which ones they want you to do.

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