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 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
-
-
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.
JET LI -
I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
JET LI -
When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
JET LI -
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 -
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.
JET LI -
I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.
JET LI -
Hero shows you how to solve the problem – yourself.
JET LI -
I didn’t go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.
JET LI -
Failure is a fuel for excuses.
JET LI -
You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
JET LI -
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 -
A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
JET LI -
I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
JET LI -
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 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.
JET LI