Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
JET LII believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
More Jet Li Quotes
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Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
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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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Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.
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I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.
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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 can feel very brave through all the action scenes in front of the people who are on the set, but when a girl comes close to me my face turns red because I’m so shy.
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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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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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Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.
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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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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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I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
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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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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 remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
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