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.
JET LIBruce 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.
More Jet Li Quotes
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Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
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Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
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While films are a very visual and emotional artistic medium, video games take it one step further into the realm of a unique personal experience.
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Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.
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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 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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One cannot choose how one’s life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage
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Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
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You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
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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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Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and still meditate
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I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.
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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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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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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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