“Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.”

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.

Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.

I’ve always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man’s mind.