One cannot choose how one’s life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage
JET LIWushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
More Jet Li Quotes
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And lot of Asian audiences and reporters don’t like me to act as a bad guy. But I think I want to become an actor, I want to try different way.
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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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In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.
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I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
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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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I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.
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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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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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I’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
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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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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 study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.
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Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.
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When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
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You can beat me up, but don’t touch my hair, I will kill you!
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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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I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
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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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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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Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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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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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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