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.
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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Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.
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Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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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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Learn the way and find your own way.
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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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You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
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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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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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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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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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I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
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A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
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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 study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.
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