Jackie Chan Quotes

When I was a kid, I loved Jackie Chan. ~ Lucas Till

The world is too violent right now. ~ Jackie Chan

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

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. ~ Jackie Chan

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

I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry. ~ Jackie Chan

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

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. ~ Jackie Chan

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

I like Jackie [Chan] because I've been a fan of Jackie's forever. He's broken every bone in his body for his commitment and dedication to doing his own stunts. So he's the real deal. ~ Jason Statham

I made a decision not to work out because I'm lazy and also, the character is not a superhero. I didn't want him to be a buff guy with Jackie Chan moves because the point is he's smarter than your average Joe. ~ Wentworth Miller

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

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. ~ Jackie Chan

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are. ~ Jackie Chan

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. ~ Jackie Chan

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

It was 'Shaolin Temple,' Jet Li's first movie. That was the movie that got me to want to learn martial arts. Then I became a huge Jet Li/Jackie Chan fan after that. ~ Daniel Wu

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. ~ Jackie Chan

I prepare for the worst, but hope for the best. ~ Jackie Chan

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

Believer

Telephone lines all across the world
People fight all across the world
Angels sing all across the world
Baby, you and me all across the world
Jackie Chan flashing all across the world
Hulk Hogan flashing all across the world
Baby, let's go fly all across the world
Baby, let's go fly all across the world!

They call me the believer
And I'm not coming back
They call me the believer
And I'm not coming back ~ John Maus

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

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!" ~ Jackie Chan

I do small things. I try to do good things every day. ~ Jackie Chan

I only want my work to make people happy. ~ Jackie Chan

I worked with Jackie Chan for a long time, and seeing how much pain he's in, I realized that that might not be a sustainable career for me. So I started to develop my career as a dramatic actor rather than as an action actor. ~ Daniel Wu

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.' ~ Jackie Chan

I remember working with Jackie Chan on Shanghai Noon [2000], and when we were working on the script, I thought that my character thought about being an outlaw the way a kid today would think about being a rock star, as a way to impress girls. So it was just kind of a funny idea, but once we had that idea, it changed the character and made it something that was funnier to me to play. ~ Owen Wilson

Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax. ~ Jackie Chan

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

Fifteen years ago, I really give up American market, ~ Jackie Chan

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. ~ Jackie Chan

I am really, really tired. ~ Jackie Chan

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. ~ Jackie Chan

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

Jackie Chan, I've known him, he's a great guy. I know he's very watchable and fun. He's perfect, actually. ~ Dolph Lundgren

One day, I want to make a PG film. ~ Jackie Chan

As one tale ends, so another begins. ~ Jackie Chan

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

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. ~ Jet Li

Jackie Chan is like a big bro to me. ~ Michelle Yeoh

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

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

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. ~ Jackie Chan

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

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. ~ Jackie Chan

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. ~ Jackie Chan

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

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. ~ Jackie Chan

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

I love to clean. ~ Jackie Chan

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. ~ Jackie Chan

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

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

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. ~ Jackie Chan

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

Chew and smile? At the same time? Do I look like Jackie Chan? ~ Jim Butcher

Some people call Police Story the greatest action film of all time, and while I have to be humble and say that I disagree, it's definitely the favorite action film I've ever made. ~ Jackie Chan

Don't wait for the change of circumstances.

You change the circumstances ~ Jackie Chan

I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro. ~ Jackie Chan

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

I like to give back. ~ Jackie Chan

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 ~ Jackie Chan

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

I give the children education. ~ Jackie Chan

i love reading book ~ Jackie Chan

Miles and I had been looking to do a martial arts show for some time. Our first two movies that we wrote were "Lethal Weapon 4" and "Shanghai Noon" with Jackie Chan. Then we sort of got pulled into the superhero world, but then you look around at what's not on television and there wasn't really a martial arts shows. There are shows that do martial arts to a degree, but there's not a martial arts show. ~ Alfred Gough

I've choreographed all of my movies. ~ Jackie Chan

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. ~ Jackie Chan

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?'. ~ Jackie Chan

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

Stigma hurts. Because of AIDS, children are bullied, isolated and shut out of school. They are missing out on education. They are missing out on medicines. Children are missing your love, care and protection. Join me. And become a stigma buster. UNITE FOR CHILDREN UNITE AGAINST AIDS ~ Jackie Chan

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. ~ Jackie Chan

The martial arts that I got into was because of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, because of all of the animal styles at the time. It was around about the time when Jackie was doing 'Drunken Master,' and, like, Snake versus this and that. ~ Ray Park

Being in a bathtub with Jackie Chan, I don't know, it has a way of bonding you I'll tell you that. I don't know if there are some weird undertones. It was like we had met in Los Angeles and we didn't have that much to say to each other but, after that bathtub scene, we were great friends. ~ Owen Wilson

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

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

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

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. ~ Jackie Chan

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. ~ Jackie Chan

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. ~ Jackie Chan

I just make good movies. That's the way I thank my fans. ~ Jackie Chan

I want to show audiences I can act. ~ Jackie Chan

When I was young, I saw a lot of martial arts films with Jet Li, Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee. I loved them. They are my heroes but, I'm so powerful, I'm so faster. I'm so young and so handsome like a model. I really loved them so they are my role models. ~ Rain

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. ~ Jackie Chan

Jackie Chan, Jet Li and Bruce Lee are my masters; they're the inspiration for my work. Bruce Lee was a heavy fighter who threw hard punches. Jackie moves very fast and uses a lot of comedy, and Jet Li is very fluid. I've tried to combine all of their styles and added some things of my own ~ Tatchakorn Yeerum

The invention progress is tough sometimes. When I first choreographed the Drunken Master in the past with Jackie Chan, I spent months to create the whole sequence. There were no fight sequences before; it's just a name. I have to choreograph it all by myself. ~ Yuen Woo-ping

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

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

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. ~ Jackie Chan

Well, that's the old story I heard about the Jackie Chan films. That, like, Jackie Chan will just keep going and when crew members drop he just replaces them. I don't know if that's true but after having worked in Japan I believe it might be true. ~ Sarah Michelle Gellar

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. ~ Jackie Chan

I've got a very interesting background. ~ Jackie Chan

Are you going to sit down?" Ida Belle asked. "Or am I supposed to drive down the bayou with you up there looking like a Jackie Chan hood ornament? ~ Jana Deleon

Actor's life is very long. ~ Jackie Chan

I don't really want to be compared to Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan, but I really feel honored and really proud that people actually see me as them or similar to them, and because they are my inspiration for what I have become today. I am really honored that people compare me to those people. ~ Tony Jaa

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. ~ Jackie Chan

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

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

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