And lot of Asian audiences and reporters don’t like me to act as a bad guy. But I think I want to become an actor, I want to try different way.
JET LIUsually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy.
More Jet Li Quotes
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Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
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I do some of my stunts for the things I have learned. But if it is for something I have never learned, then I use a double.
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A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
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I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.
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I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
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One cannot choose how one’s life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage
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Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
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You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
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Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.
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The audience makes the decision of what kind of actor they want to watch. I always have said in the last 20 years, the real boss is the audience.
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I need to talk about Chinese culture. We have deep, strong philosophy and culture. I want to share some information, tell the worldwide audience.
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I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
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Martial arts have two parts. One is external, other internal. The external is physical part. The internal is philosophy of how to be, what kind of person learns martial arts.
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Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.
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I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
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