It only hurts when I’m not laughing.
JACKIE CHANIn the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me ‘Jackie Who?’.
More Jackie Chan Quotes
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As one tale ends, so another begins.
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A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‘Jackie, are you scared?’ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.
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Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person’s life.
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In America there’s no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
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Olympics for me is love, peace, united.
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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.
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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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I hate interviews – but you have to do them.
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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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Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
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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.
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Money for me today does not really matter.
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I think every young child can learn through any martial art. They would then learn to respect their life, respect their parents, respect their country, and respect the whole world.
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I want to build up my philosophy… my philosophy with kung fu is to respect people.
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Coffee is a language in itself.
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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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I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.
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We have to do what we can to help wherever and whenever it is possible for us to help.
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Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.
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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.
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I’m good for some things, bad for a lot of things.
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I want to make people laugh and I want to try to encourage world peace.
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The best fights are the ones we avoid.
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I thought I should forget Hollywood and go back to Hong Kong. I’m so lucky that finally Hollywood accepts my comedy fighting.
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Everyone is saying that I’m retiring, but I want to solemnly declare, that I don’t want to retire, I just want to do things a bit less dangerous to my body, less dangerous action.
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When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.
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