I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
JET LII’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
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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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Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and still meditate
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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.
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You can beat me up, but don’t touch my hair, I will kill you!
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When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
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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.
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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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You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ to talk about love.
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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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A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
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Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
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Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
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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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I’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
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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 hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life – the relationship between parent and child.
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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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When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
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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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In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.
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You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
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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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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.
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Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
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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.
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