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.
JET LII 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.
More Jet Li Quotes
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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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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 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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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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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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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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Hero shows you how to solve the problem – yourself.
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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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When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.
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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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Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
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A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
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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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