Top 66 Jackie Chan Quotes

One day, I want to make a PG film.

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

I’m afraid to fail again.

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.

I do small things. I try to do good things every day.

Sometimes, I’m very embarrassed.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.

I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‘Jackie, are you scared?’ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.

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.

I really like children to watch my movies.

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.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it’s like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I’m not fighting. I don’t have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.

I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.

The movie business is a big gamble.

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

I have a metal plate in my head, and can pop my shoulder and pop it back.

I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.

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.

My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.

When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.

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.

Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.

I’m not a god – I do bad things.

I like to give back.

Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.

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.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

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.

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.

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‘I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.’ I just think my son is too lazy.

I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.

Don’t try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

I give the children education.

Of course I get hurt.

In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me ‘Jackie Who?’.

Actor’s life is very long.

Jackie Chan is a myth.

I want to show audiences I can act.

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.

I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

In the real world, children love me.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

Most of the time, I’m not even working; I’m just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.

I’ve got a very interesting background.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

I know I have a responsibility to the fans.

I love to clean.

I know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

I play a nobody in Japan.

The world is too violent right now.

I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.

If there really is a god, then he really looks after me.

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!’