If you are always allowed to stop training whenever you feel discomfort, you will find it too easy to give yourself permission to quit.
JET LIZhang 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.
More Jet Li Quotes
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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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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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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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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 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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I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
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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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Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
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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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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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I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
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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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I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.
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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 study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.
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A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
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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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A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
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You can beat me up, but don’t touch my hair, I will kill you!
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Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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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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In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.
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Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
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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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There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.
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I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.
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