“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.”

My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy.

I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.

I didn’t go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.

Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.

I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

You can beat me up, but don’t touch my hair, I will kill you!

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.

Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

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.

Love is more powerful than kicking ass.

Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.

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.

You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ to talk about love.

I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.

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.

I don’t want to be able to see the audience

I’m not sure I’ll ever be famous by anyone’s definition. I can only hope to be allowed by the audience to continue my life’s work.

The audience is like my instrument. It’s not just me up there, it’s collaborative.

I’m glad to play for them. But I’d rather play for an audience where half of them were not into it than one where all of them were pretending to be into it, for fear of being uncultured.

Don’t dance for the audience; dance for yourself.

There’s not like this separate caste system where it’s like, “I’m the musician, you’re the audience. Never the two shall meet.” It was a case where it was like, “Hey, you know what? I’m on your level, man.”

It’s spiritual – a good feeling. And although you don’t know them personally, the audience are like your friends.

We were in front of a live audience and I would be acting with the man who was playing my lover, and we used those words, and the audience would titter and laugh, and make me uncomfortable doing the scenes. …