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Jackie Chan

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.
JACKIE CHAN

Children Discipline Education Learning Right Young
Pain is my daily routine. As long as I don’t go to the hospital, it’s nothing for me.
JACKIE CHAN

Hospital Injury Myself Pain
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
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
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
As one tale ends, so another begins.
JACKIE CHAN

Beginning End Oneself Story
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.
JACKIE CHAN

Crazy Fear Mindset Myself Scare Thinking
Being still and doing nothing are two completely different things.
JACKIE CHAN

Complete Deep Different Meditation
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.
JACKIE CHAN

Art Best Build Director Man Myself Young
Family is not who’s blood is in you, is who you love and who loves you.
JACKIE CHAN

Blood Family Love Yourself
The best fights are the ones we avoid.
JACKIE CHAN

Avoid Best Fight
My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.
JACKIE CHAN

Body Dreams Film Movie Myself Stop
I want to make people laugh and I want to try to encourage world peace.
JACKIE CHAN

Encouragement Laugh Myself Peace People Try World
Coffee is a language in itself.
JACKIE CHAN

Coffee Language One Liner
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
Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
JACKIE CHAN

Circumstance Control Yourself
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
No matter how much more I practice, my English will never be perfect. If it is really terrible, I’ll correct it, but otherwise, I do it my Jackie Chan way.
JACKIE CHAN

Correct Myself Perfection Practice Terrible
I want to build up my philosophy… my philosophy with kung fu is to respect people.
JACKIE CHAN

Build Myself People Philosophy Respect
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.
JACKIE CHAN

Beginning Control Freedom Feeling Myself Need
If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?
JACKIE CHAN

Attachment Desire Heart Broken Live People True
Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.
JACKIE CHAN

Choice Inspirational Life Ourselves Stand
Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
JACKIE CHAN

Control Freedom Need People
Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.
JACKIE CHAN

Music Myself Need Relax Time
I want to really stress this, I am a director, an actor, producer, action choreographer, and I’m also an investor.
JACKIE CHAN

Actor Director Investment Myself Production
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.
JACKIE CHAN

Challenge Easy Honesty Movie Myself
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

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