I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won’t make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years.
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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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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I’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
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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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I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
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Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
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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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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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One cannot choose how one’s life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage
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Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
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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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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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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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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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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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