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 LIYou can beat me up, but don’t touch my hair, I will kill you!
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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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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When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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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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And lot of Asian audiences and reporters don’t like me to act as a bad guy. But I think I want to become an actor, I want to try different way.
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I’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
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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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Hero shows you how to solve the problem – yourself.
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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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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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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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I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
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If you are always allowed to stop training whenever you feel discomfort, you will find it too easy to give yourself permission to quit.
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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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