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.
JET LIWhen I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
More Jet Li Quotes
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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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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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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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A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
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Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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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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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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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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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 think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.
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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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Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.
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My manager introduced me to the ‘Rise to Honor’ team. I was curious about what it took to be involved in video games, a completely new form of entertainment to me.
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I 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.
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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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