Top 100 Jackie Chan Quotes
#1. When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.
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#2. I'm good for some things, bad for a lot of things.
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#5. I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.
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#6. American movies show you how to fight and break armsand necks. I want to make the action in my movies like dancing.
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#8. The ads all call me fearless, but that's just publicity. Anyone who thinks I'm not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.
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#9. Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
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#10. I just make good movies. That's the way I thank my fans.
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#11. When I'm making an American film, it's more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, 'What are you doing!? Tell me first!' There are so many restrictions.
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#12. Olympics for me is love, peace, united.
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#13. No matter how much more I practice, my English will never be perfect. If it is really terrible, I'll correct it, but otherwise, I do it my Jackie Chan way.
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#14. When I was young I trained a lot. I trained my mind, I trained my eyes, trained my thinking, how to help people. And it trained me how to deal with pressure.
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#15. Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.
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#16. Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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#17. Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.
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#18. I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.
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#19. Bruce Lee brought the martial arts movie to the attention of the world - and without him, I don't think that anyone would have ever heard of Jackie Chan.
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#20. Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
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#23. My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.
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#24. Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.
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#26. I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people say, 'Ah yes, they good.' Maybe one day, they remember Jackie Chan that way.
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#28. Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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#29. I really like children to watch my movies.
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#31. I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
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#32. If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?
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#33. I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star - I am an actor, too.
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#34. I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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#35. Some people call Police Story the greatest action film of all time, and while I have to be humble and say that I disagree, it's definitely the favorite action film I've ever made.
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#37. When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.
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#38. I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.
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#39. When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!'
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#40. I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's not like an action star.
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#41. I want to be in 'Avatar'. I want somebody to hire me to be Superman, a Chinese Superman or Spider-Man.
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#42. Martial arts is not for hurting people, it's for protecting people.
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#43. We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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#44. I only want my work to make people happy.
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#45. The children right now, the young children, everybody should go to a martial arts school. Why? Because as soon as they go to a martial arts school, they learn discipline.
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#46. May we all co-operate and join this war on pirates,
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#47. I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.
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#48. Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.
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#49. Every time I make an American film I just trust the American director and American writer. Myself, I would never make this kind of film. For me, those kinds of films are ridiculous. They don't make sense.
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#51. When I try to speak perfectly then I am not Jackie Chan anymore. Some words sound like I am trying too hard. The whole thing is not me.
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#52. I really like to be by myself and if I do go out to look around, I dress in jeans. My secretary is constantly telling me to dress up, shave and look your best because people know you. That bothers me. I just want to be natural.
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#55. My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.
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#56. I hope next time when we meet, we won't be fighting each other. Instead we will be drinking tea together.
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#57. I've got a very interesting background.
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#58. I prepare for the worst, but hope for the best.
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#59. I think every young child can learn through any martial art. They would then learn to respect their life, respect their parents, respect their country, and respect the whole world.
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#60. Acting keeps me young! I love that the fans like this kind of action and as long as they want me I'll continue to do it.
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#61. For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.
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#62. Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.
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#65. Nothing makes me more determined to succeed than someone telling me something's impossible.
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#66. More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.
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#67. I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.
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#68. I loved cowboy movies when I was a kid. When I was five years old, I was already wearing a cowboy hat and suit. When I grew up, I knew John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Kirk Douglas and so on.
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#70. I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.
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#71. Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.
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#72. I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.
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#73. When I go out, people look at me with a puzzled expression on their faces thinking, "You're Jackie Chan?" When people stare at me, it makes me uncomfortable. More and more I find that I just stay in my hotel when I am working.
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#74. I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.
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#75. Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person's life.
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#76. We have to do what we can to help wherever and whenever it is possible for us to help.
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#77. American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance ... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.
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#78. I want to make people laugh and I want to try to encourage world peace.
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#79. Stigma hurts. Because of AIDS, children are bullied, isolated and shut out of school. They are missing out on education. They are missing out on medicines. Children are missing your love, care and protection. Join me. And become a stigma buster. UNITE FOR CHILDREN UNITE AGAINST AIDS
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#80. I just couldn't stop thinking about what landmines are doing to people here. I told people - my friends - about it, but it was just not enough. I knew I had to do more.
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#81. When life knocks you down, you can choose to get back up.
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#82. I want to build up my philosophy ... my philosophy with kung fu is to respect people.
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#84. The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.
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#85. I know that eventually, I'll have to change my life and my career, but I've got a lot of good years left in me yet.
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#86. I love animals. When I was young, I had two St. Bernards, I still have a dog, I have a lot of cats in my company. My wife always says, "You spend a lot of money on animals. More than even me!"
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#87. Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.
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#88. Martial arts is for defense. It's not for attacking. So when people are fighting, always, always, defend.
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#89. You don't need a reason to be nice to someone.
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#90. In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
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#92. If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.
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#94. Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.
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#95. My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.
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#96. If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic.
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#97. I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.
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#98. I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.
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#99. The authorities should stipulate what issues people can protest over and on what issues it is not allowed.
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#100. When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.
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