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.
JET LILove is more powerful than kicking ass.
More Jet Li Quotes
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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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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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I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.
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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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Working on a film, the setup for an action sequence takes a long time, and we need to shoot the scene many times to get different angles.
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I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.
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You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
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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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When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
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Learn the way and find your own way.
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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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If you are always allowed to stop training whenever you feel discomfort, you will find it too easy to give yourself permission to quit.
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My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy.
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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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