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 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.
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I want to build up my philosophy… my philosophy with kung fu is to respect people.
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As one tale ends, so another begins.
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Nothing makes me more determined to succeed than someone telling me something’s impossible.
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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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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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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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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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Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
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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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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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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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Being still and doing nothing are two completely different things.
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The best fights are the ones we avoid.
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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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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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