I want to build up my philosophy… my philosophy with kung fu is to respect people.
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More Jackie Chan Quotes
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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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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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When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.
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Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.
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I’m crazy, but I’m not stupid.
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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.
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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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I want to make people laugh and I want to try to encourage world peace.
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I want to show audiences I can act.
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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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My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.
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Don’t try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
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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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Nothing makes me more determined to succeed than someone telling me something’s impossible.
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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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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.
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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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Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
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Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
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Most of the time, I’m not even working; I’m just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.
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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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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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We have to do what we can to help wherever and whenever it is possible for us to help.
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I hate interviews – but you have to do them.
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Olympics for me is love, peace, united.
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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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