One cannot choose how one’s life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage
JET LII 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.
More Jet Li Quotes
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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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Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
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I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.
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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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I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.
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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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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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There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.
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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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Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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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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You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
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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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Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
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