Jackie Chan Quotes

Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person's life.

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

I'm good for some things, bad for a lot of things.

One thing we haven't mentioned is something everyone should understand very clearly. Look at the budget that was invested in 'Avatar': who in China has that kind of money to spend on making a movie? So we as Chinese filmmakers should work together to make Chinese movies that can compete as best we can for Chinese audiences, not make lousy movies, but make the best we can for that audience. Concentrate the money, the talent we have on making good movies [for China].

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

I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.

In every movie I do have a dialogue.

China produces 600 movies in a year, of which 3 or 4 go abroad, while of the several hundred they make, we only bring in 50. It's 50 now, but that could be expanded later on.

Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.

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.

The best fights are the ones we avoid.

Family is not who's blood is in you, is who you love and who loves you

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

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.

In the real world, children love me.

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

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

I've been preparing [Chinese Zodiac] for seven years, spent seven years on writing the script, spent over a year on filming it.

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.

Money for me today does not really matter.

I play a nobody in Japan.

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 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.

First, there are many who can fight, but they're small in stature; Zhang Lanxin is 177 cm [5'9"+] tall, with very long hands and legs, and very quick. In the scenes, I tried to show all of her special strengths and qualities. Plus, Zhang Lanxin has extraordinary staying power: it was only yesterday at the airport that I saw her cell phone photos from the hospital where she was having blood clots in her knee being cleared up, and I hadn't known till then that she had this problem.

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

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

If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.

I want to show audiences I can act.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I really like to be by myself and if I do go out to look around, I dress in jeans. My secretary is constantly telling me to dress up, shave and look your best because people know you. That bothers me. I just want to be natural.

Being still and doing nothing are two completely different things

Most of the time I'm not even working, I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky. If there really is a god, then he really looks after me. All these years he's taken care of me, my career keeps getting better and better. Whatever I want just seems to come. And it keeps coming. So I promised myself that I have to pay for this, payback society. So this is why I started my Jackie Chan Foundation to help children and sick kids and people in hospitals.

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

In the past decade, there have been a lot of friends or directors, either gossiping or telling me directly, "What you're doing now is the right thing, your main concern should be taking care of yourself, and not doing action at your age." Well, after first feeling angry, I'd think, to be honest, I really am older. So I thought, all right, but before I retire I'd like to make one last major action film, one good one.

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.'

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

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

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.

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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.

I hate interviews - but you have to do them.

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

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

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