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.
JACKIE CHANWhen 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.
More Jackie Chan Quotes
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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 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?’.
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I only want my work to make people happy.
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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 want to really stress this, I am a director, an actor, producer, action choreographer, and I’m also an investor.
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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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I hope next time when we meet, we won’t be fighting each other. Instead we will be drinking tea together.
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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.
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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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When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.
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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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It only hurts when I’m not laughing.
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As one tale ends, so another begins.
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The children right now, the young children, everybody should go to a martial arts school. Why? Because as soon as they go to a martial arts school, they learn discipline.
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Don’t try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
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