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.
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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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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A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
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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 remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
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I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.
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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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I’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
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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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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 never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
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Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
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Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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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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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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Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
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