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.
JET LIMy 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.
More Jet Li Quotes
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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 remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
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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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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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Hero shows you how to solve the problem – yourself.
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Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
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I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.
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In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.
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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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You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
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I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
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I need to talk about Chinese culture. We have deep, strong philosophy and culture. I want to share some information, tell the worldwide audience.
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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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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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My manager introduced me to the ‘Rise to Honor’ team. I was curious about what it took to be involved in video games, a completely new form of entertainment to me.
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