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.
JET LIIf you are always allowed to stop training whenever you feel discomfort, you will find it too easy to give yourself permission to quit.
More Jet Li Quotes
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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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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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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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Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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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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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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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.
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I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
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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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You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
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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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When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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