“Every time I make an American film I just trust the American director and American writer. Myself, I would never make this kind of film. For me, those kinds of films are ridiculous. They don’t make sense.”

Pain is my daily routine. As long as I don’t go to the hospital, it’s nothing for me.

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, ‘Blah, blah, blah.’ That’s when I get crazy.

When life knocks you down, you can choose to get back up.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

As one tale ends, so another begins.

Bruce Lee brought the martial arts movie to the attention of the world – and without him, I don’t think that anyone would have ever heard of Jackie Chan.

We live now in a global village and we are in one single family. It’s our responsibility to bring friendship and love from all different places around the world and to live together in peace.

If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?

I want to really stress this, I am a director, an actor, producer, action choreographer, and I’m also an investor.

I want to make people laugh and I want to try to encourage world peace.

Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person’s life.

Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.

Officials of governments that use or produce landmines should be forced to see the reality of how landmines hurt people and make them suffer, because this would surely make them stop.

In America there’s no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

The ads all call me fearless, but that’s just publicity. Anyone who thinks I’m not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.

Kung fu lives in everything we do. It lives in how we put on a jacket and how we take off a jacket. It lives in how we treat people. Everything is kung fu.