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I want to build up my philosophy… my philosophy with kung fu is to respect people.

Jackie Chan

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.
JACKIE CHAN

Depression Learning Movie Myself See
When I was young I trained a lot. I trained my mind, I trained my eyes, trained my thinking, how to help people. And it trained me how to deal with pressure.
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Deal Eyes Mindset Myself Pressure Training Young
My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.
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Body Dreams Film Movie Myself Stop
Nothing makes me more determined to succeed than someone telling me something’s impossible.
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Determination Impossible Myself Success
I know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.
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Eat Myself Run Training
I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
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Everyday Goodness Myself Small
I want to show audiences I can act.
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Act Audience Myself
Pain is my daily routine. As long as I don’t go to the hospital, it’s nothing for me.
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Hospital Injury Myself Pain
I only want my work to make people happy.
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Happiness Myself People Work
Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
JACKIE CHAN

Circumstance Control Yourself
The children right now, the young children, everybody should go to a martial arts school. Why? Because as soon as they go to a martial arts school, they learn discipline.
JACKIE CHAN

Children Discipline Education Learning Right Young
After all those years in Asia, I don’t have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and – Boom! – people go.
JACKIE CHAN

Fame Growth Improvement Movie Myself Promotion
When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.
JACKIE CHAN

Art Education Learning Respect Yourself
Honestly, every movie I do in America, the only challenge for me is English. I’ve done everything already, for me it’s pretty easy. Only the English.
JACKIE CHAN

Challenge Easy Honesty Movie Myself
We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.
JACKIE CHAN

Art Help Learning People Weakness Yourself
You don’t need a reason to be nice to someone.
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Need Reason Yourself
No matter how much more I practice, my English will never be perfect. If it is really terrible, I’ll correct it, but otherwise, I do it my Jackie Chan way.
JACKIE CHAN

Correct Myself Perfection Practice Terrible
In America there’s no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
JACKIE CHAN

Kind Movie Myself Way
Martial arts is not for hurting people, it’s for protecting people.
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Art Hurt People Protection
I thought I should forget Hollywood and go back to Hong Kong. I’m so lucky that finally Hollywood accepts my comedy fighting.
JACKIE CHAN

Acceptance Comedy Fight Forget Hollywood Luck Myself Thinking
Coffee is a language in itself.
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Coffee Language One Liner
Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person’s life.
JACKIE CHAN

Act Care Change Compassionate Kindness Life Oneself Person
I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we’re not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want.
JACKIE CHAN

Beginning Control Freedom Feeling Myself Need
When I was a young stunt guy the director would say: “You’re useless” But I wanted to be the best, I wanted to be a super stunt guy. That’s how I built myself, because of martial arts and everything.
JACKIE CHAN

Art Best Build Director Man Myself Young
A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‘Jackie, are you scared?’ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.
JACKIE CHAN

Man Myself People Scare
Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
JACKIE CHAN

Action Direction Education Entertainment Myself Production Responsibility Society
I hope next time when we meet, we won’t be fighting each other. Instead we will be drinking tea together.
JACKIE CHAN

Drink Hope Myself Tea Time Togetherness

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