I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.
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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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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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 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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Hero shows you how to solve the problem – yourself.
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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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One cannot choose how one’s life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage
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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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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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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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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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Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
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I need to talk about Chinese culture. We have deep, strong philosophy and culture. I want to share some information, tell the worldwide audience.
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I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
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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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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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