I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.
JET LIHong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
More Jet Li Quotes
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I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.
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I didn’t go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.
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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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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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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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Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
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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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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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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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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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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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Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
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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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When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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