Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.
JET LIYou need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
More Jet Li Quotes
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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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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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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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Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
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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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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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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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You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
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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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I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
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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 never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
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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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One cannot choose how one’s life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage
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Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
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I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.
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A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
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You can beat me up, but don’t touch my hair, I will kill you!
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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 do some of my stunts for the things I have learned. But if it is for something I have never learned, then I use a double.
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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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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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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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