“Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the ’70s.”

One cannot choose how one’s life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage

Learn the way and find your own way.

I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.

But recently I’ve, the past few years, I’m more focused on meditation. It’s not a physical part. It’s more mental part, to understand life.

There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.

If you are always allowed to stop training whenever you feel discomfort, you will find it too easy to give yourself permission to quit.

I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.

Failure is a fuel for excuses.

I do some of my stunts for the things I have learned. But if it is for something I have never learned, then I use a double.

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.

You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.

My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.

When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.

In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.

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.

My manager introduced me to the ‘Rise to Honor’ team. I was curious about what it took to be involved in video games, a completely new form of entertainment to me.

Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.

When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.

Going hungry never bothered me – it was having no clothes.

We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.

I’m all over the place with muffins. Carrots are great. Banana, chocolate chip, they rock, too.

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

We don’t need sugar, flour or rice or anything else. We just want to see our dear ones.

You can’t start a diet in the middle of the week, that’s just stupid.