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Nothing makes me more determined to succeed than someone telling me something’s impossible.

Jackie Chan

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.
JACKIE CHAN

Audience Difficult Movie Myself Understand
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
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
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
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
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
Everyone is saying that I’m retiring, but I want to solemnly declare, that I don’t want to retire, I just want to do things a bit less dangerous to my body, less dangerous action.
JACKIE CHAN

Action Body Dangerous Declaration Myself Retirement
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.
JACKIE CHAN

Feeling Heart Hope Love Travel Work World Yourself
I thought I should forget Hollywood and go back to Hong Kong. I’m so lucky that finally Hollywood accepts my comedy fighting.
JACKIE CHAN

Acceptance Comedy Fight Forget Hollywood Luck Myself Thinking
In America there’s no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
JACKIE CHAN

Kind Movie Myself Way
When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.
JACKIE CHAN

Art Education Learning Respect Yourself
The movie business is a big gamble.
JACKIE CHAN

Business Movie One Liner World
My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.
JACKIE CHAN

Body Dreams Film Movie Myself Stop
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
Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person’s life.
JACKIE CHAN

Act Care Change Compassionate Kindness Life Oneself Person
When life knocks you down, you can choose to get back up.
JACKIE CHAN

Choice Inspirational Life 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 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
Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.
JACKIE CHAN

Music Myself Need Relax Time
We have to do what we can to help wherever and whenever it is possible for us to help.
JACKIE CHAN

Ability Help Possible Protection
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
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
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
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
Martial arts is not for hurting people, it’s for protecting people.
JACKIE CHAN

Art Hurt People Protection
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.
JACKIE CHAN

Force Government Official Reality Stop Suffering
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.
JACKIE CHAN

Deal Eyes Mindset Myself Pressure Training Young

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