I’m tired of fighting. I’ve always known that I can’t be an action star all my life.
JACKIE CHANWhen life knocks you down, you can choose to get back up.
More Jackie Chan Quotes
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As one tale ends, so another begins.
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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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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?’.
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I’m good for some things, bad for a lot of things.
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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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Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
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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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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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I want to show audiences I can act.
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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.
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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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Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
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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.
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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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Family is not who’s blood is in you, is who you love and who loves you.
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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.
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I want to make people laugh and I want to try to encourage world peace.
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I only want my work to make people happy.
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The best fights are the ones we avoid.
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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 really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.
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When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.
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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.
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Olympics for me is love, peace, united.
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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Being still and doing nothing are two completely different things.
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