“My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.”

A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.

I’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.

I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.

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.

I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.

I didn’t go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.

Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.

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.

I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

You can beat me up, but don’t touch my hair, I will kill you!

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.

Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

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.

Love is more powerful than kicking ass.

Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

I wasn’t available to do the right things for my son. If not for the arts, my child would’ve been lost.

I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.

The kids from the streets don’t want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don’t care if it’s ugly; they just want reality.

Rock is my child and my grandfather.

So much of what holds us back in life are the long-held resentments stemming from childhood.

I am a child of borderlines and we are two lands, carved differently.

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.