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.
JACKIE CHANI’m tired of fighting. I’ve always known that I can’t be an action star all my life.
More Jackie Chan Quotes
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Martial arts is for defense. It’s not for attacking. So when people are fighting, always, always, defend.
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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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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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You don’t need a reason to be nice to someone.
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I only want my work to make people happy.
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As one tale ends, so another begins.
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Don’t try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
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I want to show audiences I can act.
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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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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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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.
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When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.
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Pain is my daily routine. As long as I don’t go to the hospital, it’s nothing for me.
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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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When I work I do it from my heart. And my heart is that I bring love to the world. When I travel around the world I bring my love. I bring so much love in my heart. I hope you can feel that.
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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.
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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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In my view, Zhang Lanxin is one of our best female martial artists, and I can’t rate her highly enough.
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Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.
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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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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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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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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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I’m crazy, but I’m not stupid.
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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’m good for some things, bad for a lot of things.
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