Jet Li Quotes

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

“I need to talk about Chinese culture. We have deep, strong philosophy and culture. I want to share some information, tell the worldwide audience.”

— Jet Li

“Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how to do and Jet Li does a martial art that Jackie Chan doesn't know how to do. You can both go to two Chinese restaurants, but both can have different kinds of food.”

— Jet Li

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

I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.

— Jet Li

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.

— Jet Li

In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away.

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“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.”

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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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“Love is more powerful than kicking ass.”

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“Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.”

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“Hero shows you how to solve the problem - yourself.”

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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.

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A weapon isn't good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.

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“You can beat me up, but don't touch my hair, I will kill you!”

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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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“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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“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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When I was 8 years old, I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school.

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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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“I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.”

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“Watching movies in the U.S. is great fun because they get every joke, they smile, they laugh so much; it's a great feeling.”

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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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“I think Ang Lee is a very, very talented director. He used martial arts to talk about love and girl, you know ... But Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts film to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope the world will become.”

— Jet Li

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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“Even when I use a word in the wrong order in a sentence, I get mad. It's very stressful.”

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“I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.”

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People would come to me and say, 'Jet, your Kung Fu is pretty good, do you want to be an action star when you grow up?' At 17, I was given the script and I went to make the movie.

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“I can watch CNN on television or the Internet to find out what happened in Hong Kong ten minutes ago. After all, it doesn't matter where something is made, we're all part of the same big family now.”

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“Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.”

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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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“I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.”

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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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“Zhang Yimou is one of the best directors on mainland China.”

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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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Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s.

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Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It's their culture.

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“I think 'Hero' is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula.”

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“This film 'Hero' talks about the peace of Chinese people.”

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Everything too fast is not good but everything too slow is also not good. You need balance. That's why I like martial arts: it always tells you how to control your body, your mind, your heart. Balance. Balance can keep the world's peace. I think that's a very good thing.

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“If you are always allowed to stop training whenever you feel discomfort, you will find it too easy to give yourself permission to quit.”

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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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“There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.”

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“Failure is a fuel for excuses.”

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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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“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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When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.

— Jet Li

“In my mind, martial arts movies are martial arts movies and action is action. It's quite different, because martial arts doesn't just have physical form; you have a philosophy, internal and external. A lot of it involves your life. How you see the world. An action film I think is just about the movement. I think it's different.”

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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 all actors want to change. When you do something many times, over and over, you want to do something fresh. But movie is still my business. A lot of action actors want change, but no studio wants to spend money on something that is not guaranteed; not proven. I think it is very difficult. It is hard to change.”

— Jet Li