I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.
JET LIYou can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ to talk about love.
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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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A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
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Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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Learn the way and find your own way.
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I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
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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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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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There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.
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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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When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
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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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I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.
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I’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
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You can beat me up, but don’t touch my hair, I will kill you!
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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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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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One cannot choose how one’s life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage
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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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You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
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Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.
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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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Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
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Hero shows you how to solve the problem – yourself.
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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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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 remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
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