Hero shows you how to solve the problem – yourself.
JET LIThe 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.
More Jet Li Quotes
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You can beat me up, but don’t touch my hair, I will kill you!
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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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I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
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When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
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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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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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My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.
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Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
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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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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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But recently I’ve, the past few years, I’m more focused on meditation. It’s not a physical part. It’s more mental part, to understand life.
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A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
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When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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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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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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