Jet Li Quotes - Page 2

I didn't go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.

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.

I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life - the relationship between parent and child.

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.

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.

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

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.

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.

In acting you do a lot of research. Audience watch Jet Li because of the fight. They watch other actors because they are funny. If they want funny, they don't want to see Jet Li, they watch the other guy. That's the reality I face, until the one day I can prove I can make film without action that is a fun movie. Then everybody will say Jet Li, hmmm.

I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.

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

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

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

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.

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

I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.

The audience makes the decision of what kind of actor they want to watch. I always have said in the last 20 years, the real boss is the audience.

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

Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.

Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope.

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.

When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.

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

My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.

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.