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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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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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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I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
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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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While films are a very visual and emotional artistic medium, video games take it one step further into the realm of a unique personal experience.
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Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
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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 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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And lot of Asian audiences and reporters don’t like me to act as a bad guy. But I think I want to become an actor, I want to try different way.
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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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I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
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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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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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