“It only hurts when I’m not laughing.”

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

I want to show audiences I can act.

Martial arts is for defense. It’s not for attacking. So when people are fighting, always, always, defend.

The movie business is a big gamble.

In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me ‘Jackie Who?’.

I hate interviews – but you have to do them.

I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we’re not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want.

Being still and doing nothing are two completely different things.

After all those years in Asia, I don’t have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and – Boom! – people go.

I only want my work to make people happy.

I want to build up my philosophy… my philosophy with kung fu is to respect people.

When I look at young kids today I just don’t believe it, parents take away the Gameboy and they’re suicidal. They cannot take the pressure.

Family is not who’s blood is in you, is who you love and who loves you.

I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people say, ‘Ah yes, they good.’ Maybe one day, they remember Jackie Chan that way.

Every time I make an American film I just trust the American director and American writer. Myself, I would never make this kind of film. For me, those kinds of films are ridiculous. They don’t make sense.

I do small things. I try to do good things every day.

As long as you’re not hurting anyone, your choices are your choices.

Forgiving doesn’t make the person who hurt you feel better, it makes you feel better.

You’ve got to let that hurt go baby, It’s only hurting you in the end.

How well you treat the wicked people, they don’t give up their wickedness. They derive pleasure in hurting others. A serpent made to drink milk, it ejects poison only.

When someone hurts you, it’s because they’re hurt. Their hurt is simply spilling over. They need help.

To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday’s hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can’t build a monument to past problems and fail forward.

You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour.

What hurts most is whenever I am leading, and then I lose the match, it is disappointing, and there are so many such matches.