Quotes from Steven Seagal

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.

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

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

I've been a musician since childhood, and music is my first love. I love it.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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