Jackie Chan Quotes

I think every young child can learn through any martial art. They would then learn to respect their life, respect their parents, respect their country, and respect the whole world.

When I am making a film, I know what to do in front of a camera. What frightens me are the scenes with dialogue. Sometime they really want me to speak perfectly and I don't like that.

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

I've got a very interesting background.

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.

I'm afraid to fail again.

When life knocks you down, you can choose to get back up.

When I go out, people look at me with a puzzled expression on their faces thinking, "You're Jackie Chan?" When people stare at me, it makes me uncomfortable. More and more I find that I just stay in my hotel when I am working.

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

I am the Olympic Ambassador. I always promote Olympics. I just want to say, Olympics is Olympics. [You] cannot mix with politics. Olympics for me is love, peace, [being] united.

I know I have a responsibility to the fans.

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.

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

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

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.

When I was young I trained a lot. I trained my mind, I trained my eyes, trained my thinking, how to help people. And it trained me how to deal with pressure.

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

Making a Hollywood film you don't have a very big movie because they have a Safety Captain and insurance people on the set. They have to check first. 'Don't do it. Let me check. Make sure everything is safe.'

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

I love to clean.

I think as a celebrity, we have to teach the young generation how to speak with the old generation.

I prepare for the worst, but hope for the best.

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

I only want my work to make people happy.

I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.

I hope next time when we meet, we won't be fighting each other. Instead we will be drinking tea together.

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

I've choreographed all of my movies.

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

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 love reading book

Acting keeps me young! I love that the fans like this kind of action and as long as they want me I'll continue to do it.

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

I give the children education.

I just couldn't stop thinking about what landmines are doing to people here. I told people - my friends - about it, but it was just not enough. I knew I had to do more.

Martial arts is not for hurting people, it's for protecting people.

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

When I work I do it from my heart. And my heart is that I bring love to the world. When I travel around the world I bring my love. I bring so much love in my heart. I hope you can feel that.

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

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

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

The best fights are the ones we avoid.

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

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.

In the real world, children love me.

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

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

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I know that eventually, I'll have to change my life and my career, but I've got a lot of good years left in me yet.

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

When I look at young kids today I just don't believe it, parents take away the Gameboy and they're suicidal. They cannot take the pressure.

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

I want to show audiences I can act.

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.

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

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

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

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

Jackie Chan is a myth.

May we all co-operate and join this war on pirates,

Sometimes you think the movie is good and BOOM! Sometimes you think it's no good. BAAM! The movie business is a big gamble. You never know.

I love animals. When I was young, I had two St. Bernards, I still have a dog, I have a lot of cats in my company. My wife always says, "You spend a lot of money on animals. More than even me!"

I thought I should forget Hollywood and go back to Hong Kong. I'm so lucky that finally Hollywood accepts my comedy fighting.

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

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

I'm not young anymore. I'm really, really tired. And the world is too violent right now. It's a dilemma - I like action but I don't like violence.

American movies show you how to fight and break armsand necks. I want to make the action in my movies like dancing.

My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. Listing what body parts he has broken

As one tale ends, so another begins.

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.

When I was a young stunt guy the director would say: "You're useless ... " But I wanted to be the best, I wanted to be a super stunt guy. That's how I built myself, because of martial arts and everything.

Officials of governments that use or produce landmines should be forced to see the reality of how landmines hurt people and make them suffer, because this would surely make them stop.

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

I like to give back.

One day, I want to make a PG film.

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

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

Don't wait for the change of circumstances.

You change the circumstances

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.

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

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

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

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

Money for me today does not really matter.

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.

When I try to speak perfectly then I am not Jackie Chan anymore. Some words sound like I am trying too hard. The whole thing is not me.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I am really, really tired.

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.

Actor's life is very long.

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

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