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Jackie Chan

Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.
JACKIE CHAN

Music Myself Need Relax Time
Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
JACKIE CHAN

Dedication Determination Hard Work Inspirational Myself Sleep Training
Martial arts is for defense. It’s not for attacking. So when people are fighting, always, always, defend.
JACKIE CHAN

Art Attack Defense People
Money for me today does not really matter.
JACKIE CHAN

Day Money Myself Worth
In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me ‘Jackie Who?’.
JACKIE CHAN

English Feeling Hollywood Humiliate Myself Past
Olympics for me is love, peace, united.
JACKIE CHAN

Love Myself Peace Sports Unity
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.
JACKIE CHAN

Artist Fight Myself Time Violence
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
Being still and doing nothing are two completely different things.
JACKIE CHAN

Complete Deep Different Meditation
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.
JACKIE CHAN

Crazy English Language Perfection Talk Togetherness Word
I want to show audiences I can act.
JACKIE CHAN

Act Audience Myself
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
When life knocks you down, you can choose to get back up.
JACKIE CHAN

Choice Inspirational Life Myself
Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person’s life.
JACKIE CHAN

Act Care Change Compassionate Kindness Life Oneself Person
Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
JACKIE CHAN

Action Direction Education Entertainment Myself Production Responsibility Society
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.
JACKIE CHAN

Believe Children Myself Parents Pressure Suicide Young
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.
JACKIE CHAN

Attention Movie Myself Thinking World
I know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.
JACKIE CHAN

Eat Myself Run Training
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
Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
JACKIE CHAN

Adapt Cinema Culture Harm Lose Original Reflection Technology Yourself
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.
JACKIE CHAN

Friendship Global Live Myself Peace Place Togetherness World
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.
JACKIE CHAN

Bully Mental Myself Scare Stand
In my view, Zhang Lanxin is one of our best female martial artists, and I can’t rate her highly enough.
JACKIE CHAN

Best Enough Female Herself High Idol Rate View
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
Most of the time, I’m not even working; I’m just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.
JACKIE CHAN

Feeling Help Myself People Time Work
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
I’m crazy, but I’m not stupid.
JACKIE CHAN

Crazy Myself Stupidity

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