“I didn’t go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.”

I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.

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.

I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.

Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.

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.

I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

You can beat me up, but don’t touch my hair, I will kill you!

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.

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

The 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.

Love is more powerful than kicking ass.

Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.

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.

You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ to talk about love.

I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

My philosophy is that I’m an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes.

We must link Azamgarh to art and culture and not with terrorism and crime.

Fashion is everything. Art, music, furniture design, graphic design, hair, makeup, architecture, the way cars look – all those things go together to make a moment in time, and that’s what excites me.

I have no purpose. I’m just light and art and love.

The bed was the canvas, we were the art.

Sunsets, my love, are just abstract paintings of your eyes.

A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth – that’s what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.