I’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
JET LII 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.
More Jet Li Quotes
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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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I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
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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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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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Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.
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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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If you are always allowed to stop training whenever you feel discomfort, you will find it too easy to give yourself permission to quit.
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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 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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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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Zhang 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.
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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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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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When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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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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