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.
JET LIHero shows you how to solve the problem – yourself.
More Jet Li Quotes
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A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
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Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
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Everywhere 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
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Hero shows you how to solve the problem – yourself.
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Learn the way and find your own way.
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You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
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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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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 study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.
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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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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 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 spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
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You can beat me up, but don’t touch my hair, I will kill you!
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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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