“When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.”

Officials of governments that use or produce landmines should be forced to see the reality of how landmines hurt people and make them suffer, because this would surely make them stop.

In America there’s no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

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.

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.

You don’t need a reason to be nice to someone.

I’m crazy, but I’m not stupid.

Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

Don’t try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

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.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

I know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.

Coffee is a language in itself.

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.

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.

Nothing makes me more determined to succeed than someone telling me something’s impossible.

Depression is a side effect of dying.

If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.

Depression is the absence of hope.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

Staying in a hopeless and miserable situation doesn’t make you loyal, it just makes you miserable.

What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.