Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy.
JET LIYou can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ to talk about love.
More Jet Li Quotes
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When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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I can feel very brave through all the action scenes in front of the people who are on the set, but when a girl comes close to me my face turns red because I’m so shy.
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Martial arts have two parts. One is external, other internal. The external is physical part. The internal is philosophy of how to be, what kind of person learns martial arts.
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Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.
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I didn’t go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.
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There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.
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I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.
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Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
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When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
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I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
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I need to talk about Chinese culture. We have deep, strong philosophy and culture. I want to share some information, tell the worldwide audience.
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Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.
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I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
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You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ to talk about love.
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Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and still meditate
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While films are a very visual and emotional artistic medium, video games take it one step further into the realm of a unique personal experience.
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I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life – the relationship between parent and child.
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My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.
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A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
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Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope.
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Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.
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In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.
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I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.
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I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
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You can beat me up, but don’t touch my hair, I will kill you!
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I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.
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