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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One cannot choose how one’s life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage
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I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
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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’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
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When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
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Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and still meditate
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Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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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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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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I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.
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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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Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
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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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I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.
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Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.
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