When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
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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Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
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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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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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I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.
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You can beat me up, but don’t touch my hair, I will kill you!
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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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I’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
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I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.
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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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One cannot choose how one’s life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage
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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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I need to talk about Chinese culture. We have deep, strong philosophy and culture. I want to share some information, tell the worldwide audience.
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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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