Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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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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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When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
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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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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 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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I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.
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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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A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
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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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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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Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.
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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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You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
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My manager introduced me to the ‘Rise to Honor’ team. I was curious about what it took to be involved in video games, a completely new form of entertainment to me.
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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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I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
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I’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
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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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If you are always allowed to stop training whenever you feel discomfort, you will find it too easy to give yourself permission to quit.
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I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life – the relationship between parent and child.
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But 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.
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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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When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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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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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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A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
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