Jet Li Quotes

I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.

You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.

My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy.

Zhang Yimou is one of the best directors on mainland China.

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.

I do some of my stunts for the things I have learned. But if it is for something I have never learned, then I use a double.

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

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

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.

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.

There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.

Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy.

I can watch CNN on television or the Internet to find out what happened in Hong Kong ten minutes ago. After all, it doesn't matter where something is made, we're all part of the same big family now.

I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.

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

I think 'Hero' is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula.

Everything too fast is not good but everything too slow is also not good. You need balance. That's why I like martial arts: it always tells you how to control your body, your mind, your heart. Balance. Balance can keep the world's peace. I think that's a very good thing.

Failure is a fuel for excuses.

If you are always allowed to stop training whenever you feel discomfort, you will find it too easy to give yourself permission to quit.

One cannot choose how one's life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage

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

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.

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

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

You can beat me up, but don't touch my hair, I will kill you!

When I was 8 years old, I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school.

Love is more powerful than kicking ass.

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

But recently I've, the past few years, I'm more focused on meditation. It's not a physical part. It's more mental part, to understand life.

Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It's their culture.

Working on a film, the setup for an action sequence takes a long time, and we need to shoot the scene many times to get different angles.

A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.

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

Watching movies in the U.S. is great fun because they get every joke, they smile, they laugh so much; it's a great feeling.

And lot of Asian audiences and reporters don't like me to act as a bad guy. But I think I want to become an actor, I want to try different way.

Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and still meditate.

I wish heroes didn't exist. Whenever we need a hero, it's because there's a problem that needs to be solved; it's because two groups of people, or two countries, are hurting one another, so a hero is needed to save us. If everyone were at peace, if everyone were happy, why would we need heroes? The world is better off without heroes.

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

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

I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.

People would come to me and say, 'Jet, your Kung Fu is pretty good, do you want to be an action star when you grow up?' At 17, I was given the script and I went to make the movie.