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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.

Jet Li

I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
JET LI

Language Learning Myself Religion Time
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.
JET LI

Audience Different Myself Report Try Way
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.
JET LI

Amazing Himself Martial Art Mental Movement Movie Philosophy Strong
Hero shows you how to solve the problem – yourself.
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Independent Problem Solve Yourself
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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Action Formula Friendship Kill Learning Martial Art Movie
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.
JET LI

Family Happiness Home Myself Wife Worker
One cannot choose how one’s life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage
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Beginning Choice Courage End Face Life Oneself
Martial arts have two parts. One is external, other internal. The external is physical part. The internal is philosophy of how to be, what kind of person learns martial arts.
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Learning Martial Art Philosophy Physical
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.
JET LI

Learning Myself Stunt
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.
JET LI

Entertainment Game Introduction Manager Myself
Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.
JET LI

Act Forget Friendship Movie
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.
JET LI

Martial Art Myself Talent
Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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Failure Fuel One Liner
There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.
JET LI

Action Actor Body Break Myself Purity Success
I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
JET LI

Movie Myself Study Treat
Learn the way and find your own way.
JET LI

Learning Way Yourself
Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
JET LI

Art Attack Movement Physical
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.
JET LI

Action Angle Different Movie Time Work
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
JET LI

Meditation Myself People Talk Thinking Time
My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.
JET LI

Children Culture Education Myself Wife
You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ to talk about love.
JET LI

Different Love Martial Art Talk Yourself
You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
JET LI

Need Perfection Self Love Slow Yourself
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.
JET LI

Marketing Martial Art Myself Time
A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
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Brain Group Head Person
When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
JET LI

Brother Friendship Work 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.
JET LI

Focus Life Meditation Mental Understand
If you are always allowed to stop training whenever you feel discomfort, you will find it too easy to give yourself permission to quit.
JET LI

Allow Comfortable Feeling Permission Quit Stop Training Yourself

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