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One cannot choose how one’s life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage

Jet Li

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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Action Angle Different Movie Time Work
In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.
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Art Enemy Evidence Martial Struggle Yourself
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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Hope Martial Art Need Talk Thinking
Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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Failure Fuel One Liner
A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
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Brain Group Head Person
When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
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Family Feeling Live Myself
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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Children Education Martial Art Myself Sports
My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.
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Children Culture Education Myself Wife
I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
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Age Demonstration Remember
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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Learning Martial Art Philosophy Physical
Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.
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Inspirational Life Understand
A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
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Bad Goodness Person Weapon
My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy.
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Family Happiness Home Myself Wife Worker
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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Focus Life Meditation Mental Understand
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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Artistic Experience Medium Movie Personal Visual
There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.
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Action Actor Body Break Myself Purity Success
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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Different Love Martial Art Talk Yourself
Hero shows you how to solve the problem – yourself.
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Independent Problem Solve Yourself
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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Action Brave Face Feeling Myself Scene
I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life – the relationship between parent and child.
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Children Examination Hope Important Myself Parents
I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
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Movie Myself Study Treat
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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Martial Art Myself Talent
One cannot choose how one’s life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage
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Beginning Choice Courage End Face Life Oneself
Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
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Battle Fight Love Powerful
I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.
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Enlightenment Level Life Myself Study Talk Truth
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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Happiness Kind Martial Art Movie Myself People Talk
When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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Brother Friendship Work Yourself

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