I hate interviews – but you have to do them.
JACKIE CHANI’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.
More Jackie Chan Quotes
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I don’t want to be an action star, an action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.
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I do small things. I try to do good things every day. If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.
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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.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.
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I’m tired of fighting. I’ve always known that I can’t be an action star all my life.
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When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.
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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.
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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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When I look at young kids today I just don’t believe it, parents take away the Gameboy and they’re suicidal. They cannot take the pressure.
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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.
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The movie business is a big gamble.
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I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people say, ‘Ah yes, they good.’ Maybe one day, they remember Jackie Chan that way.
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It only hurts when I’m not laughing.
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Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don’t like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn’t work. Some movie I don’t like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.
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If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?
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