I want to show audiences I can act.
JACKIE CHANSpeaking 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.
More Jackie Chan Quotes
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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 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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I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.
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Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
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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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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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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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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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Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.
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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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