I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.
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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A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
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Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.
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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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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 remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
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Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
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Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.
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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 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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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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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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