Jean-Claude van Damme is a famous actor. When he was a child, he took ballet lessons, won different ballet competitions. Then a Paris ballet company gave him a job as a dancer, but he decided he wanted to work in films, so he didn't take the job. Instead, he went to the USA. In 1981 he travelled to Hollywood. He had English lessons and worked for a pizza house. That was how he made money. One night he met a film producer outside the restaurant. "Hello, I'm Jean-Claude van Damme, " he said. "I'll be an actor soon." The producer didn't believe him then. And he was wrong. Now there are few people in the world who don't know this actor.
