Failure is a fuel for excuses.
JET LIMy wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.
More Jet Li Quotes
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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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I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.
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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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I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
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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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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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When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
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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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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 remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
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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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Hero shows you how to solve the problem – yourself.
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Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.
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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 spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
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