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.
JET LII want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.
More Jet Li Quotes
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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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A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
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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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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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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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You can beat me up, but don’t touch my hair, I will kill you!
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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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Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
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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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Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
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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.
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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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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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I’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
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A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
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