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Jackie Chan

When I was young I trained a lot. I trained my mind, I trained my eyes, trained my thinking, how to help people. And it trained me how to deal with pressure.
JACKIE CHAN

Deal Eyes Mindset Myself Pressure Training Young
It only hurts when I’m not laughing.
JACKIE CHAN

Hurt Laughter Myself Pain
When I was a young stunt guy the director would say: “You’re useless” But I wanted to be the best, I wanted to be a super stunt guy. That’s how I built myself, because of martial arts and everything.
JACKIE CHAN

Art Best Build Director Man Myself Young
I hate interviews – but you have to do them.
JACKIE CHAN

Hate Interview Yourself
Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
JACKIE CHAN

Control Freedom Need People
I sometimes just don’t like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.
JACKIE CHAN

Artist Fight Myself Time Violence
I want to show audiences I can act.
JACKIE CHAN

Act Audience Myself
We live now in a global village and we are in one single family. It’s our responsibility to bring friendship and love from all different places around the world and to live together in peace.
JACKIE CHAN

Friendship Global Live Myself Peace Place Togetherness World
I only want my work to make people happy.
JACKIE CHAN

Happiness Myself People Work
Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.
JACKIE CHAN

Music Myself Need Relax Time
Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
JACKIE CHAN

Circumstance Control Yourself
I’m good for some things, bad for a lot of things.
JACKIE CHAN

Bad Goodness Myself
As one tale ends, so another begins.
JACKIE CHAN

Beginning End Oneself Story
Martial arts is for defense. It’s not for attacking. So when people are fighting, always, always, defend.
JACKIE CHAN

Art Attack Defense People
I’m tired of fighting. I’ve always known that I can’t be an action star all my life.
JACKIE CHAN

Action Fight Life Myself Stardom Tired
The ads all call me fearless, but that’s just publicity. Anyone who thinks I’m not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.
JACKIE CHAN

Crazy Fear Mindset Myself Scare Thinking
Kung fu lives in everything we do. It lives in how we put on a jacket and how we take off a jacket. It lives in how we treat people. Everything is kung fu.
JACKIE CHAN

Education Live People Treat
The children right now, the young children, everybody should go to a martial arts school. Why? Because as soon as they go to a martial arts school, they learn discipline.
JACKIE CHAN

Children Discipline Education Learning Right Young
Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
JACKIE CHAN

Adapt Cinema Culture Harm Lose Original Reflection Technology Yourself
In my view, Zhang Lanxin is one of our best female martial artists, and I can’t rate her highly enough.
JACKIE CHAN

Best Enough Female Herself High Idol Rate View
Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
JACKIE CHAN

Dedication Determination Hard Work Inspirational Myself Sleep Training
Everyone is saying that I’m retiring, but I want to solemnly declare, that I don’t want to retire, I just want to do things a bit less dangerous to my body, less dangerous action.
JACKIE CHAN

Action Body Dangerous Declaration Myself Retirement
Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don’t like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn’t work. Some movie I don’t like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.
JACKIE CHAN

Audience Difficult Movie Myself Understand
In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me ‘Jackie Who?’.
JACKIE CHAN

English Feeling Hollywood Humiliate Myself Past
No matter how much more I practice, my English will never be perfect. If it is really terrible, I’ll correct it, but otherwise, I do it my Jackie Chan way.
JACKIE CHAN

Correct Myself Perfection Practice Terrible
Every time I make an American film I just trust the American director and American writer. Myself, I would never make this kind of film. For me, those kinds of films are ridiculous. They don’t make sense.
JACKIE CHAN

Director Kind Movie Myself Ridiculous Time Trust
Being still and doing nothing are two completely different things.
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