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.
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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You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
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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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Learn the way and find your own way.
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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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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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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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Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
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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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I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
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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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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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Hero shows you how to solve the problem – yourself.
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Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
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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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I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
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