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.
JET LIYou need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
More Jet Li Quotes
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Learn the way and find your own way.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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You can beat me up, but don’t touch my hair, I will kill you!
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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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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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A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
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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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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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