I’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
JET LIThe audience makes the decision of what kind of actor they want to watch. I always have said in the last 20 years, the real boss is the 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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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.
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Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
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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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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.
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I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.
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I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
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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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Learn the way and find your own way.
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A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
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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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I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life – the relationship between parent and child.
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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 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.
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When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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