I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
JET LII 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.
More Jet Li Quotes
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A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
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Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of 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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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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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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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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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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One cannot choose how one’s life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage
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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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Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
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Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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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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In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.
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