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.
JET LIZhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope.
More Jet Li Quotes
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When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
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Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
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When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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You can beat me up, but don’t touch my hair, I will kill you!
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You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
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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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I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
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My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.
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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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I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
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There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.
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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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Working on a film, the setup for an action sequence takes a long time, and we need to shoot the scene many times to get different angles.
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Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
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I’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
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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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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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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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A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
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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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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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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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Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.
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Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.
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