I didn’t go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.
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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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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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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When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
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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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In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.
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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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Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
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Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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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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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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I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.
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When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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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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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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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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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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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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You can beat me up, but don’t touch my hair, I will kill you!
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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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A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
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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.
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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 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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