I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.
JET LII 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.
More Jet Li Quotes
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There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.
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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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I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
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Hero shows you how to solve the problem – yourself.
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When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
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Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.
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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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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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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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When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
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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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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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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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