I thought I should forget Hollywood and go back to Hong Kong. I’m so lucky that finally Hollywood accepts my comedy fighting.
JACKIE CHANMy dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.
More Jackie Chan Quotes
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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 want to really stress this, I am a director, an actor, producer, action choreographer, and I’m also an investor.
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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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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 don’t want to be an action star, an action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.
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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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I hate interviews – but you have to do them.
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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 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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Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.
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I’m good for some things, bad for a lot of things.
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When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.
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Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
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Nothing makes me more determined to succeed than someone telling me something’s impossible.
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As one tale ends, so another begins.
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