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.
JET LILearn the way and find your own way.
More Jet Li Quotes
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Hero shows you how to solve the problem – yourself.
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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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Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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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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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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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 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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Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.
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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 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 remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
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I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.
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Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
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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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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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I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
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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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I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.
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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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Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
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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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Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.
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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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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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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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