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You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ to talk about love.

Jet Li

I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.
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Important Martial Art Myself Thinking Young
I’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
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Learning Martial Art Myself
There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.
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Action Actor Body Break Myself Purity Success
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
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
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
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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Amazing Himself Martial Art Mental Movement Movie Philosophy Strong
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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Action Formula Friendship Kill Learning Martial Art Movie
Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
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Battle Fight Love Powerful
Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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Failure Fuel One Liner
When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
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Family Feeling Live Myself
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
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
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
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
My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy.
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Family Happiness Home Myself Wife Worker
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 didn’t go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.
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Children Education Martial Art Myself Sports
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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Happiness Kind Martial Art Movie Myself People Talk
You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
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Need Perfection Self Love Slow Yourself
I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
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Language Learning Myself Religion Time
Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope.
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Hope Martial Art Need Talk Thinking
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
I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.
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Father Life Myself Thankful
Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.
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Act Forget Friendship Movie
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
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

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