A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‘Jackie, are you scared?’ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.
JACKIE CHANAs one tale ends, so another begins.
More Jackie Chan Quotes
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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.
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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 hope next time when we meet, we won’t be fighting each other. Instead we will be drinking tea together.
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I hate violence, yes I do. It’s kind of a dilemma, huh?.
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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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In America there’s no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
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I want to really stress this, I am a director, an actor, producer, action choreographer, and I’m also an investor.
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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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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.
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Most of the time, I’m not even working; I’m just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.
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Being still and doing nothing are two completely different things.
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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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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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I’m tired of fighting. I’ve always known that I can’t be an action star all my life.
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Nothing makes me more determined to succeed than someone telling me something’s impossible.
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The movie business is a big gamble.
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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.
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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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Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
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I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people say, ‘Ah yes, they good.’ Maybe one day, they remember Jackie Chan that way.
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Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.
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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.
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I hate interviews – but you have to do them.
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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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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.
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I know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.
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