One cannot choose how one’s life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage
JET LII stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.
More Jet Li Quotes
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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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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’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
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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.
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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 remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
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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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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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I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.
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Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
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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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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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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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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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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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