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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Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.
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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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Learn the way and find your own way.
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Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
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Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
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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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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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In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.
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