My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.
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 remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
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I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.
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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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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 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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I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life – the relationship between parent and child.
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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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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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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 think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.
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I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.
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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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Learn the way and find your own way.
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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’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
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You can beat me up, but don’t touch my hair, I will kill you!
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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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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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Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
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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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Hero shows you how to solve the problem – yourself.
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When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
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A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
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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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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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