Steven Seagal quotes:

Aikido is not merely about fighting and the development of the physical self but the perfection of the spiritual man at the same time. It has very harmonious movements, very beautiful to watch and beautiful for your body to feel.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.'

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.

You can say that I lived in Asia for a long time and in Japan I became close to several CIA agents. And you could say that I became an adviser to several CIA agents in the field and, through my friends in the CIA, met many powerful people and did special works and special favors.

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

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

I would only ever be involved in a reality show that was about real life and had lots of action.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I love getting out on the streets and helping people.

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

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

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

I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.

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.

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.

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 want to be able to work on a project that will give people around the world the chance to represent their own people, their own culture, their own stories, rather than just Hollywood - really, you know, dominated Hollywood. And that's a dream of mine.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

[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.

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

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

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 was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood.

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

I'm very into the military and police stuff. Gear and technical gear is something that's changing every day and every day you're trying to be on the cutting edge and improve your stuff more and more because your life depends on it. And so, the guns and the gears are changing constantly.

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

The entrances I make now, when we kick in the door of a high-risk warrant, eighty percent of the homes we're kicking into, it's dark in there for some reason. That's just the way the bad guys are doing it now. So now all of my sights are night sights; I've also put special light rails on the bottom of all of them so I can put a special light on them that's combination white light/laser.

The secret is not to act, but to be.

To a police officer, a sawed off shotgun is the ultimate nightmare. You can blow someone in half!

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

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

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

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.