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I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.

Jet Li

I’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
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Learning Martial Art Myself
A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
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Brain Group Head Person
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
When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
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Family Feeling Live Myself
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
I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
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Language Learning Myself Religion Time
Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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Failure Fuel One Liner
Hero shows you how to solve the problem – yourself.
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Independent Problem Solve 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
I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won’t make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years.
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Marketing Martial Art Myself Time
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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Meditation Myself People Talk Thinking Time
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
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
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
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
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
Learn the way and find your own way.
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Learning Way Yourself
Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope.
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Hope Martial Art Need Talk Thinking
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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Happiness Kind Martial Art Movie Myself People Talk
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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Amazing Himself Martial Art Mental Movement Movie Philosophy Strong
I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
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Age Demonstration Remember
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
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
When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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Brother Friendship Work Yourself
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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Family Happiness Home Myself Wife Worker
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
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

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