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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.

Jet Li

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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Action Brave Face Feeling Myself Scene
When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
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Family Feeling Live Myself
When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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Brother Friendship Work Yourself
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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Actor Audience Decision Kind Myself Reality
I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.
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Martial Art Myself Talent
Hero shows you how to solve the problem – yourself.
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Independent Problem Solve Yourself
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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Action Formula Friendship Kill Learning Martial Art Movie
I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
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Movie Myself Study Treat
In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.
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Art Enemy Evidence Martial Struggle Yourself
I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.
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Father Life Myself Thankful
Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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Failure Fuel One Liner
A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
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Brain Group Head Person
There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.
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Action Actor Body Break Myself Purity Success
A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
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Bad Goodness Person Weapon
Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.
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Act Forget Friendship Movie
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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Focus Life Meditation Mental Understand
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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Children Education Martial Art Myself Sports
You can beat me up, but don’t touch my hair, I will kill you!
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Beat Funny Hairs Instagram Captions Myself Touch
I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
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Age Demonstration Remember
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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Learning Myself Stunt
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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Action Angle Different Movie Time Work
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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Different Love Martial Art Talk Yourself
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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Learning Martial Art Philosophy Physical
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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Audience Culture Information Myself Need Philosophy Share Strong Talk World
Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.
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Inspirational Life Understand
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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Artist Day Sun Wait
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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Food Future Meet Myself Past President

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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