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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

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
We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.
JACKIE CHAN

Art Help Learning People Weakness Yourself
I want to show audiences I can act.
JACKIE CHAN

Act Audience Myself
Olympics for me is love, peace, united.
JACKIE CHAN

Love Myself Peace Sports Unity
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
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
The movie business is a big gamble.
JACKIE CHAN

Business Movie One Liner 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
If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?
JACKIE CHAN

Attachment Desire Heart Broken Live People True
In my view, Zhang Lanxin is one of our best female martial artists, and I can’t rate her highly enough.
JACKIE CHAN

Best Enough Female Herself High Idol Rate View
It only hurts when I’m not laughing.
JACKIE CHAN

Hurt Laughter Myself Pain
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
Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
JACKIE CHAN

Circumstance Control Yourself
Don’t try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
JACKIE CHAN

Computer Study Technology Try
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 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.
JACKIE CHAN

Art Children Country Learning Myself Respect World Young
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.
JACKIE CHAN

Challenge Easy Honesty Movie Myself
Bruce Lee brought the martial arts movie to the attention of the world – and without him, I don’t think that anyone would have ever heard of Jackie Chan.
JACKIE CHAN

Attention Movie Myself Thinking World
Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
JACKIE CHAN

Control Freedom Need People
Family is not who’s blood is in you, is who you love and who loves you.
JACKIE CHAN

Blood Family Love Yourself
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
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
The best fights are the ones we avoid.
JACKIE CHAN

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

Encouragement Laugh Myself Peace People Try World
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

People Remember
Being still and doing nothing are two completely different things.
JACKIE CHAN

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