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 CHANWe learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.
More Jackie Chan Quotes
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I thought I should forget Hollywood and go back to Hong Kong. I’m so lucky that finally Hollywood accepts my comedy fighting.
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I want to make people laugh and I want to try to encourage world peace.
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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.
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I’m tired of fighting. I’ve always known that I can’t be an action star all my life.
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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.
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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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Martial arts is not for hurting people, it’s for protecting people.
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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.
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I only want my work to make people happy.
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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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You don’t need a reason to be nice to someone.
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Family is not who’s blood is in you, is who you love and who loves you.
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In my view, Zhang Lanxin is one of our best female martial artists, and I can’t rate her highly enough.
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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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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.
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