Failure is a fuel for excuses.
JET LIBut 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.
More Jet Li Quotes
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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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You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
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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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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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You can beat me up, but don’t touch my hair, I will kill you!
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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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A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
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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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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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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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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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In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.
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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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When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
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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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