Jackie Chan Quotes

 Jackie Chan

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"Coffee is a language in itself."

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

"My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary."

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

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

"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."

"I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life."

"Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe."

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

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

"Of course I get hurt."

"I want to be in 'Avatar'. I want somebody to hire me to be Superman, a Chinese Superman or Spider-Man."

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

"If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic."

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

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

"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?'."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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 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."

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

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

"I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now."

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

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

"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 sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent."

"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."

"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."

"I give the children education."

"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."

"Olympics for me is love, peace, united."

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

"I only want my work to make people happy."

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

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

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

"I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers."

"I know I have a responsibility to the fans."

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro."

"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."

"In the real world, children love me."

"I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry."

"Money for me today does not really matter."

"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."

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

"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."

"The movie business is a big gamble."

"I love to clean."

"I like to give back."

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

"I am really, really tired."

"I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years."

"I'm crazy, but I'm not too crazy."

"Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie."

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

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

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

"When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office."

"Actor's life is very long."

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

"I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer."

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

"I hate interviews - but you have to do them."

"I just make good movies. That's the way I thank my fans."

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

"I play a nobody in Japan."

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

"I want to show audiences I can act."

"I really like children to watch my movies."

"I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star - I am an actor, too."

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

"I'm afraid to fail again."

"I'm not a god - I do bad things."

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

"I've choreographed all of my movies."

"I've got a very interesting background."

"One day, I want to make a PG film."

"Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed."

"The world is too violent right now."

"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!'."

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

"You cannot mix sports with politics."

"In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make."

"Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult."

"In every movie I do have a dialogue."

"Jackie Chan is a myth."