“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.”

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.

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.

If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?

I want to really stress this, I am a director, an actor, producer, action choreographer, and I’m also an investor.

I want to make people laugh and I want to try to encourage world peace.

Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person’s life.

Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.

In America there’s no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

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.

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.

You don’t need a reason to be nice to someone.

I’m crazy, but I’m not stupid.

Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

Don’t try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

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

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.

Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.