I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.
JET LIYou need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
More Jet Li Quotes
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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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Hero shows you how to solve the problem – yourself.
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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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I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
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Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.
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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 study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.
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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’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
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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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In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.
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I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.
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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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I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
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Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
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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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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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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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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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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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You can beat me up, but don’t touch my hair, I will kill you!
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You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
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Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
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My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.
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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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