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.
JET LII never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
More Jet Li Quotes
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I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.
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Learn the way and find your own way.
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A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
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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 want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.
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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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Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
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You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
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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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There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.
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My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.
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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 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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When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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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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