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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.

Jet Li

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
I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
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Age Demonstration Remember
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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Learning Myself Stunt
When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
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Family Feeling Live Myself
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
Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.
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Inspirational Life Understand
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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Actor Audience Decision Kind Myself Reality
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
Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
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Art Attack Movement Physical
Hero shows you how to solve the problem – yourself.
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Independent Problem Solve Yourself
A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
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Bad Goodness Person Weapon
A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
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Brain Group Head Person
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
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
When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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Brother Friendship Work Yourself
I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.
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Age Martial Art Myself
I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.
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Father Life Myself Thankful
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
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
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
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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Allow Comfortable Feeling Permission Quit Stop Training Yourself
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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Audience Different Myself Report Try Way
I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
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Believe Big Each Other Family
I need to talk about Chinese culture. We have deep, strong philosophy and culture. I want to share some information, tell the worldwide audience.
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Audience Culture Information Myself Need Philosophy Share Strong Talk World
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
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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Artist Day Sun Wait
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

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