One cannot choose how one’s life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage
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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Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.
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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 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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My manager introduced me to the ‘Rise to Honor’ team. I was curious about what it took to be involved in video games, a completely new form of entertainment to me.
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Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
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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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A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
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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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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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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 remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
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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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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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You can beat me up, but don’t touch my hair, I will kill you!
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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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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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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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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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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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When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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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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Learn the way and find your own way.
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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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A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
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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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You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
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