I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
JET LII think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.
More Jet Li Quotes
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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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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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When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.
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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 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 remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
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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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Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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