Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.
JET LIFailure is a fuel for excuses.
More Jet Li Quotes
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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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Learn the way and find your own way.
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A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
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When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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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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One cannot choose how one’s life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage
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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 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 want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.
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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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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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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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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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