Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.
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More Jet Li Quotes
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I’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
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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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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 hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life – the relationship between parent and child.
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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 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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I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.
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There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.
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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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Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.
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You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ to talk about love.
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When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
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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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A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
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Hero shows you how to solve the problem – yourself.
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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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A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
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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 think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.
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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.
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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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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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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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Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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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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