black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

It only hurts when I’m not laughing.

Jackie Chan

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.
JACKIE CHAN

Goodness Myself Small Thinking Try
Nothing makes me more determined to succeed than someone telling me something’s impossible.
JACKIE CHAN

Determination Impossible Myself Success
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
I want to really stress this, I am a director, an actor, producer, action choreographer, and I’m also an investor.
JACKIE CHAN

Actor Director Investment Myself Production
Pain is my daily routine. As long as I don’t go to the hospital, it’s nothing for me.
JACKIE CHAN

Hospital Injury Myself Pain
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?’.
JACKIE CHAN

English Feeling Hollywood Humiliate Myself Past
I’m tired of fighting. I’ve always known that I can’t be an action star all my life.
JACKIE CHAN

Action Fight Life Myself Stardom Tired
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
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 hate violence, yes I do. It’s kind of a dilemma, huh?.
JACKIE CHAN

Hate Kind Myself Struggle Violence
Family is not who’s blood is in you, is who you love and who loves you.
JACKIE CHAN

Blood Family Love Yourself
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
Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
JACKIE CHAN

Attitude Pride Worth
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
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
I want to build up my philosophy… my philosophy with kung fu is to respect people.
JACKIE CHAN

Build Myself People Philosophy Respect
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
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
I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we’re not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want.
JACKIE CHAN

Beginning Control Freedom Feeling Myself Need
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.
JACKIE CHAN

Bully Mental Myself Scare Stand
I’m good for some things, bad for a lot of things.
JACKIE CHAN

Bad Goodness Myself
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 hope next time when we meet, we won’t be fighting each other. Instead we will be drinking tea together.
JACKIE CHAN

Drink Hope Myself Tea Time Togetherness
Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.
JACKIE CHAN

Choice Inspirational Life Ourselves Stand
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
Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
JACKIE CHAN

Action Direction Education Entertainment Myself Production Responsibility Society
You don’t need a reason to be nice to someone.
JACKIE CHAN

Need Reason Yourself

It only hurts when I’m not laughing.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

It only hurts when I’m not laughing.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Jackie Chan Quotes