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 CHANI want to really stress this, I am a director, an actor, producer, action choreographer, and I’m also an investor.
More Jackie Chan Quotes
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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.
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Family is not who’s blood is in you, is who you love and who loves you.
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As one tale ends, so another begins.
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In America there’s no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
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If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?
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Being still and doing nothing are two completely different things.
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I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
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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.
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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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Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
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Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
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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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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.
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In my view, Zhang Lanxin is one of our best female martial artists, and I can’t rate her highly enough.
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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.
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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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I think every young child can learn through any martial art. They would then learn to respect their life, respect their parents, respect their country, and respect the whole world.
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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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Pain is my daily routine. As long as I don’t go to the hospital, it’s nothing for me.
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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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The movie business is a big gamble.
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It only hurts when I’m not laughing.
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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.
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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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I’m crazy, but I’m not stupid.
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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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