“Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.”

I thought I should forget Hollywood and go back to Hong Kong. I’m so lucky that finally Hollywood accepts my comedy fighting.

I hate violence, yes I do. It’s kind of a dilemma, huh?.

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.

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.

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.

The best fights are the ones we avoid.

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.

In my view, Zhang Lanxin is one of our best female martial artists, and I can’t rate her highly enough.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

Martial arts is not for hurting people, it’s for protecting people.

I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

Pain is my daily routine. As long as I don’t go to the hospital, it’s nothing for me.

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.

When life knocks you down, you can choose to get back up.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

No sorrow will ever disturb me, no circumstance will cause me to fret, for I shall rest in the joy of what my Lord is–that is the rest of victory!

There is nothing–no circumstance, no trouble, no testing–that can ever touch me until.

There is no circumstance, no trouble, no testing, that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ, right through to me.

Elicited by a particular set of circumstances on a particular day, and we do well to wait a while before concluding that what we see is the whole person.

While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the “old,” pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.

In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.

There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

Highly resilient people are flexible, adapt to new circumstances quickly, and thrive in constant change.