I thought I should forget Hollywood and go back to Hong Kong. I’m so lucky that finally Hollywood accepts my comedy fighting.
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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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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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.
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Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
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The best fights are the ones we avoid.
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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.
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I’m crazy, but I’m not stupid.
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Martial arts is not for hurting people, it’s for protecting people.
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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.
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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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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.
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I only want my work to make people happy.
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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.
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Pain is my daily routine. As long as I don’t go to the hospital, it’s nothing for me.
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When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.
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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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