Top 100 Quotes About Jackie Chan
#1. I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li.
Ang Lee
#2. Before I did 'Rush Hour,' I was a big fan of Jackie Chan movies and I had seen all of them.
Brett Ratner
#3. I like Jackie [Chan] because I've been a fan of Jackie's forever. He's broken every bone in his body for his commitment and dedication to doing his own stunts. So he's the real deal.
Jason Statham
#4. I'm inspired by my master's movie 'Kerd ma lui,' Bruce Lee's 'Fists of Fury,' and Jackie Chan's 'Police Story.'
Tony Jaa
#5. 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.
Jackie Chan
#6. I was doing an hour drama on television and a Jackie Chan movie in Toronto, so I was on a plane every three days.
Debi Mazar
#7. In the film industry, we tend to pick up where others have left off, and I'd like to think the influences I picked up from Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sylvester Stallone and Jean-Claude Van Damme are visible in my work.
Scott Adkins
#8. I don't really want to be compared to Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan, but I really feel honored and really proud that people actually see me as them or similar to them, and because they are my inspiration for what I have become today. I am really honored that people compare me to those people.
Tony Jaa
#9. Jackie Chan, I've known him, he's a great guy. I know he's very watchable and fun. He's perfect, actually.
Dolph Lundgren
#10. 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.
Jackie Chan
#11. 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.
Jackie Chan
#12. Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
Jackie Chan
#13. I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that.
Chiaki Kuriyama
#14. I love 'Enter the Dragon,' and I love Japanese movies. I love Jackie Chan movies; they are my heroes.
Rain
#15. When I was young, I saw a lot of martial arts films with Jet Li, Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee. I loved them. They are my heroes but, I'm so powerful, I'm so faster. I'm so young and so handsome like a model. I really loved them so they are my role models.
Rain
#16. Jackie Chan, Jet Li and Bruce Lee are my masters; they're the inspiration for my work. Bruce Lee was a heavy fighter who threw hard punches. Jackie moves very fast and uses a lot of comedy, and Jet Li is very fluid. I've tried to combine all of their styles and added some things of my own
Tatchakorn Yeerum
#17. After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
Jackie Chan
#18. It was 'Shaolin Temple,' Jet Li's first movie. That was the movie that got me to want to learn martial arts. Then I became a huge Jet Li/Jackie Chan fan after that.
Daniel Wu
#19. 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.
Jackie Chan
#20. My father was, like, the token bad white guy in all the old Jackie Chan/Bruce Lee films.
Celina Jade
#22. The martial arts that I got into was because of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, because of all of the animal styles at the time. It was around about the time when Jackie was doing 'Drunken Master,' and, like, Snake versus this and that.
Ray Park
#23. Are you going to sit down?" Ida Belle asked. "Or am I supposed to drive down the bayou with you up there looking like a Jackie Chan hood ornament?
Jana Deleon
#24. Well, that's the old story I heard about the Jackie Chan films. That, like, Jackie Chan will just keep going and when crew members drop he just replaces them. I don't know if that's true but after having worked in Japan I believe it might be true.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
#25. Being in a bathtub with Jackie Chan, I don't know, it has a way of bonding you I'll tell you that. I don't know if there are some weird undertones. It was like we had met in Los Angeles and we didn't have that much to say to each other but, after that bathtub scene, we were great friends.
Owen Wilson
#26. I made a decision not to work out because I'm lazy and also, the character is not a superhero. I didn't want him to be a buff guy with Jackie Chan moves because the point is he's smarter than your average Joe.
Wentworth Miller
#27. 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
#28. When I was a kid, I loved Jackie Chan.
Lucas Till
#29. Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
Jackie Chan
#30. 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.
Jackie Chan
#31. I have met Jackie Chan about 6 times up 'til now ... and even though many people think we are natural enemies, I personally think he is a cool bloke and would honestly love to work with him in a film one time - that would a well brilliant movie!
Jet Li
#32. I worked with Jackie Chan for a long time, and seeing how much pain he's in, I realized that that might not be a sustainable career for me. So I started to develop my career as a dramatic actor rather than as an action actor.
Daniel Wu
#34. I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
Jackie Chan
#35. Chew and smile? At the same time? Do I look like Jackie Chan?
Jim Butcher
#36. The invention progress is tough sometimes. When I first choreographed the Drunken Master in the past with Jackie Chan, I spent months to create the whole sequence. There were no fight sequences before; it's just a name. I have to choreograph it all by myself.
Yuen Woo-ping
#37. I haven't had a chance really to do a martial arts role, but I really want to. I want to act like Jackie Chan in a movie.
Brett Dier
#38. My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.
Jackie Chan
#39. When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.
Jackie Chan
#40. I know I have a responsibility to the fans.
Jackie Chan
#41. I think as a celebrity, we have to teach the young generation how to speak with the old generation.
Jackie Chan
#42. I'm good for some things, bad for a lot of things.
Jackie Chan
#44. The best fights are the ones we avoid.
Jackie Chan
#45. I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.
Jackie Chan
#47. American movies show you how to fight and break armsand necks. I want to make the action in my movies like dancing.
Jackie Chan
#49. Pain is my daily routine. As long as I don't go to the hospital, it's nothing for me.
Jackie Chan
#50. 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.
Jackie Chan
#51. When I was a young stunt guy the director would say: "You're useless ... " But I wanted to be the best, I wanted to be a super stunt guy. That's how I built myself, because of martial arts and everything.
Jackie Chan
#52. One thing I did pick up from Cannonball Run was the use of bloopers and outtakes under the final credits, which I've done in all my movies since.
Jackie Chan
#53. Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
Jackie Chan
#54. My affection for Taiwan ... is witnessed by everyone. My wife is Taiwanese and I am a son-in-law of Taiwan. I am half Taiwanese.
Jackie Chan
#55. I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
Jackie Chan
#56. I just make good movies. That's the way I thank my fans.
Jackie Chan
#57. 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.
Jackie Chan
#58. When I am making a film, I know what to do in front of a camera. What frightens me are the scenes with dialogue. Sometime they really want me to speak perfectly and I don't like that.
Jackie Chan
#59. A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.
Jackie Chan
#60. I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.
Jackie Chan
#61. Olympics for me is love, peace, united.
Jackie Chan
#62. When I work I do it from my heart. And my heart is that I bring love to the world. When I travel around the world I bring my love. I bring so much love in my heart. I hope you can feel that.
Jackie Chan
#63. 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.
Jackie Chan
#64. Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.
Jackie Chan
#65. Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
Jackie Chan
#66. Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.
Jackie Chan
#67. I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.
Jackie Chan
#68. Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
Jackie Chan
#69. Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
Jackie Chan
#72. My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.
Jackie Chan
#73. I allowed myself to be bullied because I was scared and didn't know how to defend myself. I was bullied until I prevented a new student from being bullied. By standing up for him, I learned to stand up for myself.
Jackie Chan
#74. Family is not who's blood is in you, is who you love and who loves you
Jackie Chan
#75. Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.
Jackie Chan
#77. If I need to buy a TV, I'll definitely buy a Japanese TV. A Chinese TV might explode.
Jackie Chan
#79. I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.
Jackie Chan
#80. I really like children to watch my movies.
Jackie Chan
#82. 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.
Jackie Chan
#83. If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?
Jackie Chan
#84. I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star - I am an actor, too.
Jackie Chan
#85. I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
Jackie Chan
#86. 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.
Jackie Chan
#87. Fifteen years ago, I really give up American market,
Jackie Chan
#88. Officials of governments that use or produce landmines should be forced to see the reality of how landmines hurt people and make them suffer, because this would surely make them stop.
Jackie Chan
#89. Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.
Jackie Chan
#90. When I look at young kids today I just don't believe it, parents take away the Gameboy and they're suicidal. They cannot take the pressure.
Jackie Chan
#92. When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.
Jackie Chan
#93. 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.
Jackie Chan
#94. I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.
Jackie Chan
#95. 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!'
Jackie Chan
#96. The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.
Jackie Chan
#97. 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.
Jackie Chan
#98. I want to be in 'Avatar'. I want somebody to hire me to be Superman, a Chinese Superman or Spider-Man.
Jackie Chan
#99. Martial arts is not for hurting people, it's for protecting people.
Jackie Chan
#100. We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
Jackie Chan
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