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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More Jet Li Quotes
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Learn the way and find your own way.
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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.
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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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I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.
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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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I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.
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You can beat me up, but don’t touch my hair, I will kill you!
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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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Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
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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 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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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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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 believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
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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 hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life – the relationship between parent and child.
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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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In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.
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A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
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Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.
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A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
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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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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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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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There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.
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Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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