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.
JACKIE CHANWhen 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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When life knocks you down, you can choose to get back up.
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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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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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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 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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The best fights are the ones we avoid.
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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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Martial arts is not for hurting people, it’s for protecting people.
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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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Nothing makes me more determined to succeed than someone telling me something’s impossible.
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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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Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.
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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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It only hurts when I’m not laughing.
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