In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.
JET LIWorking 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.
More Jet Li Quotes
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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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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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Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.
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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 need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
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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 is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.
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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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A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
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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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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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One cannot choose how one’s life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage
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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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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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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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