My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.
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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When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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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 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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Hero shows you how to solve the problem – yourself.
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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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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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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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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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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’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
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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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Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
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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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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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