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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.

Jackie Chan

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.
JACKIE CHAN

Action Career Myself Short Star
I want to show audiences I can act.
JACKIE CHAN

Act Audience Myself
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.
JACKIE CHAN

Fame Growth Improvement Movie Myself Promotion
Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
JACKIE CHAN

Dedication Determination Hard Work Inspirational Myself Sleep Training
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 CHAN

Deal Eyes Mindset Myself Pressure Training Young
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.
JACKIE CHAN

Friendship Global Live Myself Peace Place Togetherness World
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.
JACKIE CHAN

Artist Fight Myself Time Violence
You don’t need a reason to be nice to someone.
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Need Reason Yourself
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.
JACKIE CHAN

Education Live People Treat
I want to build up my philosophy… my philosophy with kung fu is to respect people.
JACKIE CHAN

Build Myself People Philosophy Respect
Nothing makes me more determined to succeed than someone telling me something’s impossible.
JACKIE CHAN

Determination Impossible Myself Success
Family is not who’s blood is in you, is who you love and who loves you.
JACKIE CHAN

Blood Family Love Yourself
I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
JACKIE CHAN

Everyday Goodness Myself Small
Every time I make an American film I just trust the American director and American writer. Myself, I would never make this kind of film. For me, those kinds of films are ridiculous. They don’t make sense.
JACKIE CHAN

Director Kind Movie Myself Ridiculous Time Trust
I hate violence, yes I do. It’s kind of a dilemma, huh?.
JACKIE CHAN

Hate Kind Myself Struggle Violence
I thought I should forget Hollywood and go back to Hong Kong. I’m so lucky that finally Hollywood accepts my comedy fighting.
JACKIE CHAN

Acceptance Comedy Fight Forget Hollywood Luck Myself Thinking
Don’t try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
JACKIE CHAN

Computer Study Technology Try
Martial arts is not for hurting people, it’s for protecting people.
JACKIE CHAN

Art Hurt People Protection
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.
JACKIE CHAN

Force Government Official Reality Stop Suffering
Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
JACKIE CHAN

Attitude Pride Worth
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.
JACKIE CHAN

Crazy Fear Mindset Myself Scare Thinking
Most of the time, I’m not even working; I’m just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.
JACKIE CHAN

Feeling Help Myself People Time Work
A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‘Jackie, are you scared?’ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.
JACKIE CHAN

Man Myself People Scare
Money for me today does not really matter.
JACKIE CHAN

Day Money Myself Worth
My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.
JACKIE CHAN

Body Dreams Film Movie Myself Stop
The best fights are the ones we avoid.
JACKIE CHAN

Avoid Best Fight
I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people say, ‘Ah yes, they good.’ Maybe one day, they remember Jackie Chan that way.
JACKIE CHAN

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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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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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