I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.
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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I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.
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Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.
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A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
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I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
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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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I can feel very brave through all the action scenes in front of the people who are on the set, but when a girl comes close to me my face turns red because I’m so shy.
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Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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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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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 never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
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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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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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You can beat me up, but don’t touch my hair, I will kill you!
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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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