When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
JET LII 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.
More Jet Li Quotes
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I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.
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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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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 mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
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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 spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
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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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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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Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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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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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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Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
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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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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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In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.
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