I didn’t go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.
JET LII didn’t go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.
More Jet Li Quotes
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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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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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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.
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I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.
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Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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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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You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
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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 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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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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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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Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
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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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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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I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
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