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.
JACKIE CHANWhy did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
More Jackie Chan Quotes
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Coffee is a language in itself.
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Olympics for me is love, peace, united.
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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.
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The movie business is a big gamble.
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Family is not who’s blood is in you, is who you love and who loves you.
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When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.
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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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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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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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Nothing makes me more determined to succeed than someone telling me something’s impossible.
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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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I sometimes just don’t like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.
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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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I allowed myself to be bullied because I was scared and didn’t know how to defend myself. I was bullied until I prevented a new student from being bullied. By standing up for him, I learned to stand up for myself.
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Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.
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