I’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
JET LII remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
More Jet Li Quotes
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One cannot choose how one’s life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage
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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 weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
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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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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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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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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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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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Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
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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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I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.
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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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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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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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