Jet Li Inspirational Quotes

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. ~ Jet Li

I love Jet Li, he's really special. ~ Bridget Fonda

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

Love is more powerful than kicking ass. ~ Jet Li

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. ~ Jet Li

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

I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American. ~ Barry Eisler

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

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. ~ Jet Li

Failure is a fuel for excuses. ~ Jet Li

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. ~ Jet Li

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

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

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

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. ~ Jet Li

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. ~ Jet Li

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

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

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

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

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. ~ Jet Li

Whoever says girls can't work in emergency services has obviously never dialed 911 and talked to a female dispatcher. ~ Jun Li Kanashii

You are a hologram of the world around you, and in that hologram, whatever you do inside yourself shows itself in your outside, and that means you have total control over your life and your creations and experiences by just going inside. ~ Maha Devi Li Ra La

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. ~ Jet Li

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

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

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

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. ~ Jet Li

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. ~ Jet Li

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. ~ Jet Li

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

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. ~ Jet Li

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

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

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

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. ~ Jet Li