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.
JET LIEverywhere 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
More Jet Li Quotes
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I’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
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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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Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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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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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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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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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 remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
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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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When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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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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I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
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You can beat me up, but don’t touch my hair, I will kill you!
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I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.
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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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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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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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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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There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.
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I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won’t make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years.
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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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A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
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I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.
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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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