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 LIAnd 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.
More Jet Li Quotes
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Learn the way and find your own way.
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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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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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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.
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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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Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
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You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
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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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I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
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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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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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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 study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.
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I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won’t make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years.
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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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