I didn’t go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.
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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I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
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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 hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life – the relationship between parent and child.
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I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
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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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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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A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
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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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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 study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.
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You can beat me up, but don’t touch my hair, I will kill you!
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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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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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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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Learn the way and find your own way.
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Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.
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I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won’t make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years.
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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 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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Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
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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’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
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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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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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You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
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Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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