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.
JET LII 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.
More Jet Li Quotes
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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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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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Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
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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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Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.
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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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A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
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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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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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There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.
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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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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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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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When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
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