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Usually 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.

Jet Li

One cannot choose how one’s life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage
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Beginning Choice Courage End Face Life Oneself
In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.
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Art Enemy Evidence Martial Struggle Yourself
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.
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Audience Different Myself Report Try Way
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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Artist Day Sun Wait
If you are always allowed to stop training whenever you feel discomfort, you will find it too easy to give yourself permission to quit.
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Allow Comfortable Feeling Permission Quit Stop Training Yourself
Hero shows you how to solve the problem – yourself.
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Independent Problem Solve Yourself
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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Actor Audience Decision Kind Myself Reality
My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.
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Children Culture Education Myself Wife
You can beat me up, but don’t touch my hair, I will kill you!
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Beat Funny Hairs Instagram Captions Myself Touch
When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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Brother Friendship Work Yourself
I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
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Movie Myself Study Treat
I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won’t make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years.
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Marketing Martial Art Myself Time
I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life – the relationship between parent and child.
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Children Examination Hope Important Myself Parents
I can feel very brave through all the action scenes in front of the people who are on the set, but when a girl comes close to me my face turns red because I’m so shy.
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Action Brave Face Feeling Myself Scene
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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Learning Martial Art Philosophy Physical
While films are a very visual and emotional artistic medium, video games take it one step further into the realm of a unique personal experience.
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Artistic Experience Medium Movie Personal Visual
You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
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Need Perfection Self Love Slow Yourself
I’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
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Learning Martial Art Myself
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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Martial Art Myself Talent
I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
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Age Demonstration Remember
Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the ’70s.
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Food Future Meet Myself Past President
I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.
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Age Martial Art Myself
I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.
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Enlightenment Level Life Myself Study Talk Truth
Working on a film, the setup for an action sequence takes a long time, and we need to shoot the scene many times to get different angles.
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Action Angle Different Movie Time Work
Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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Failure Fuel One Liner
I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.
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Father Life Myself Thankful
My manager introduced me to the ‘Rise to Honor’ team. I was curious about what it took to be involved in video games, a completely new form of entertainment to me.
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Entertainment Game Introduction Manager Myself

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