We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.
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More Jackie Chan Quotes
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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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When I was a young stunt guy the director would say: “You’re useless” But I wanted to be the best, I wanted to be a super stunt guy. That’s how I built myself, because of martial arts and everything.
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I’m good for some things, bad for a lot of things.
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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.
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I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.
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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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Being still and doing nothing are two completely different things.
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The children right now, the young children, everybody should go to a martial arts school. Why? Because as soon as they go to a martial arts school, they learn discipline.
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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.
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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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Pain is my daily routine. As long as I don’t go to the hospital, it’s nothing for me.
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The movie business is a big gamble.
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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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Olympics for me is love, peace, united.
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I want to make people laugh and I want to try to encourage world peace.
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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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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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You don’t need a reason to be nice to someone.
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Nothing makes me more determined to succeed than someone telling me something’s impossible.
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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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Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
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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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Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.
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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 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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Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
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