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I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.

Jet Li

Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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Failure Fuel One Liner
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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Martial Art Myself Talent
Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
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Battle Fight Love Powerful
When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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Brother Friendship Work Yourself
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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Action Angle Different Movie Time Work
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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Action Brave Face Feeling Myself Scene
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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Learning Myself Stunt
I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life – the relationship between parent and child.
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Children Examination Hope Important Myself Parents
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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Different Love Martial Art Talk Yourself
You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
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Need Perfection Self Love Slow Yourself
A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
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Bad Goodness Person Weapon
I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
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Believe Big Each Other Family
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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Allow Comfortable Feeling Permission Quit Stop Training Yourself
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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Children Education Martial Art Myself Sports
Hero shows you how to solve the problem – yourself.
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Independent Problem Solve Yourself
I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.
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Father Life Myself Thankful
I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
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Age Demonstration Remember
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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Happiness Kind Martial Art Movie Myself People Talk
Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.
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Inspirational Life Understand
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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Artist Day Sun Wait
And lot of Asian audiences and reporters don’t like me to act as a bad guy. But I think I want to become an actor, I want to try different way.
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Audience Different Myself Report Try Way
In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.
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Art Enemy Evidence Martial Struggle Yourself
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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Focus Life Meditation Mental Understand
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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Artistic Experience Medium Movie Personal Visual
I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.
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Enlightenment Level Life Myself Study Talk Truth
Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.
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Act Forget Friendship Movie
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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Actor Audience Decision Kind Myself Reality

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