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.
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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In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.
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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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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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A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
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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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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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I need to talk about Chinese culture. We have deep, strong philosophy and culture. I want to share some information, tell the worldwide audience.
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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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Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
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I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life – the relationship between parent and child.
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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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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.
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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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You can beat me up, but don’t touch my hair, I will kill you!
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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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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’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
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Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
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I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.
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Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.
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Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
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When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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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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A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
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Learn the way and find your own way.
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