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 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 know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.
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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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I want to make people laugh and I want to try to encourage world peace.
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Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
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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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The best fights are the ones we avoid.
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I hope next time when we meet, we won’t be fighting each other. Instead we will be drinking tea together.
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The movie business is a big gamble.
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When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.
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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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Being still and doing nothing are two completely different things.
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Coffee is a language in itself.
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Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
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When I work I do it from my heart. And my heart is that I bring love to the world. When I travel around the world I bring my love. I bring so much love in my heart. I hope you can feel that.
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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.
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In America there’s no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
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As one tale ends, so another begins.
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Don’t try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
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I hate violence, yes I do. It’s kind of a dilemma, huh?.
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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.
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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 want to build up my philosophy… my philosophy with kung fu is to respect people.
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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?’.
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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.
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A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‘Jackie, are you scared?’ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.
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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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