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.
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.
More Jackie Chan Quotes
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I want to build up my philosophy… my philosophy with kung fu is to respect people.
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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 do small things. I try to do good things every day.
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Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.
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Honestly, every movie I do in America, the only challenge for me is English. I’ve done everything already, for me it’s pretty easy. Only the English.
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I want to make people laugh and I want to try to encourage world peace.
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Being still and doing nothing are two completely different things.
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I hope next time when we meet, we won’t be fighting each other. Instead we will be drinking tea together.
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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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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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The movie business is a big gamble.
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I sometimes just don’t like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.
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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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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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Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.
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