When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
JET LIHong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
More Jet Li Quotes
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I do some of my stunts for the things I have learned. But if it is for something I have never learned, then I use a double.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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 am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.
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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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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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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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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 spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
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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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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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