Words matter. These are the best Jet Li Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
Even when I use a word in the wrong order in a sentence, I get mad. It’s very stressful.
I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.
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.
This film ‘Hero’ talks about the peace of Chinese people.
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.
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.
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.
You can beat me up, but don’t touch my hair, I will kill you!
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.
Zhang Yimou is one of the best directors on mainland China.
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.
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.
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.
Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.
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.
I need to talk about Chinese culture. We have deep, strong philosophy and culture. I want to share some information, tell the worldwide audience.
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.
Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.
I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.
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.
Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.
I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.
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.
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.
I do some of my stunts for the things I have learned. But if it is for something I have never learned, then I use a double.
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.
I’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
Hero shows you how to solve the problem – yourself.
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.
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.
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.
