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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.

Jackie Chan

I want to make people laugh and I want to try to encourage world peace.
JACKIE CHAN

Encouragement Laugh Myself Peace People Try World
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.
JACKIE CHAN

Crazy English Language Perfection Talk Togetherness Word
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
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 CHAN

Action Body Dangerous Declaration Myself Retirement
Coffee is a language in itself.
JACKIE CHAN

Coffee Language One Liner
I’m good for some things, bad for a lot of things.
JACKIE CHAN

Bad Goodness Myself
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
I want to show audiences I can act.
JACKIE CHAN

Act Audience Myself
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
The best fights are the ones we avoid.
JACKIE CHAN

Avoid Best Fight
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
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.
JACKIE CHAN

Audience Difficult Movie Myself Understand
When I look at young kids today I just don’t believe it, parents take away the Gameboy and they’re suicidal. They cannot take the pressure.
JACKIE CHAN

Believe Children Myself Parents Pressure Suicide Young
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.
JACKIE CHAN

Children Discipline Education Learning Right Young
Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
JACKIE CHAN

Control Freedom Need People
I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
JACKIE CHAN

Everyday Goodness Myself Small

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