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.
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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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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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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A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
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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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Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
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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’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
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Learn the way and find your own 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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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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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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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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Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.
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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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Hero shows you how to solve the problem – yourself.
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My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.
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Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
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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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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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When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
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When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
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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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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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I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life – the relationship between parent and child.
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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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