You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ to talk about love.
JET LIOne cannot choose how one’s life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage
More Jet Li Quotes
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When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
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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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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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Hero shows you how to solve the problem – yourself.
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You can beat me up, but don’t touch my hair, I will kill you!
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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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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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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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When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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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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You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
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Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
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I’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
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