Jackie Chan Quotes

Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.

Nothing makes me more determined to succeed than someone telling me something's impossible.

I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

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

Family is not who's blood is in you, is who you love and who loves you

The best fights are the ones we avoid.

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.

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

Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person's life.

I do small things. I try to do good things every day. If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.

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.

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

Coffee is a language in itself.

Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.

If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?

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

Kung fu lives in everything we do. It lives in how we put on a jacket and how we take off a jacket. It lives in how we treat people. Everything is kung fu.

We have to do what we can to help wherever and whenever it is possible for us to help.

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.

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.

You don't need a reason to be nice to someone.

Being still and doing nothing are two completely different things

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.

I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.

I am really, really tired.

We live now in a global village and we are in one single family. It's our responsibility to bring friendship and love from all different places around the world and to live together in peace.

Even during the promotion I told people that I didn't like Rush Hour. The jokes I didn't understand and the fighting, compared to my Hong Kong films was terrible. A lot of people didn't like it. But mostly people did like it, they really liked it. Rush Hour really brought me to the American family audience.

I want to make people laugh and I want to try to encourage world peace.

As one tale ends, so another begins.

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

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

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.

In my view, Zhang Lanxin is one of our best female martial artists, and I can't rate her highly enough.

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

If I need to buy a TV, I'll definitely buy a Japanese TV. A Chinese TV might explode.

Pain is my daily routine. As long as I don't go to the hospital, it's nothing for me.

I'm good for some things, bad for a lot of things.

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

One thing we haven't mentioned is something everyone should understand very clearly. Look at the budget that was invested in 'Avatar': who in China has that kind of money to spend on making a movie? So we as Chinese filmmakers should work together to make Chinese movies that can compete as best we can for Chinese audiences, not make lousy movies, but make the best we can for that audience. Concentrate the money, the talent we have on making good movies [for China].

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

Martial arts is for defense. It's not for attacking. So when people are fighting, always, always, defend.

When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'

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

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

Most of the time I'm not even working, I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky. If there really is a god, then he really looks after me. All these years he's taken care of me, my career keeps getting better and better. Whatever I want just seems to come. And it keeps coming. So I promised myself that I have to pay for this, payback society. So this is why I started my Jackie Chan Foundation to help children and sick kids and people in hospitals.

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.

I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.

Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?

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.