Jackie Chan Quotes

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

It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.

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

Pain is my daily routine. As long as I don't go to the hospital, it's nothing for me.

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.

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.

I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people say, 'Ah yes, they good.' Maybe one day, they remember Jackie Chan that way.

Of course I get hurt.

When I came to Hollywood, I spoke no English - except nobody bullied me. Every day, I had nothing to do except training in English, to keep talking.

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

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

I'm very pessimistic about that, no matter how hard we may try. The Chinese market is huge, but out of last year's $2 billion box office, $1.8 billion was taken in by foreign movies, and just $200 million by our own movies, no matter how much we have learned of their techniques, or their good practices. The Hollywood movies imported into China are all good movies; does the U.S. make lousy movies? Yes, too many lousy movies, but the imports are good films, so how can they not be box office hits? They're all hits.

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 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.

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

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.

The authorities should stipulate what issues people can protest over and on what issues it is not allowed.

Bruce Lee brought the martial arts movie to the attention of the world - and without him, I don't think that anyone would have ever heard of Jackie Chan.

I only want my work to make people happy.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

The movie business is a big gamble.

The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro , like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.

In my view, Zhang Lanxin is one of our best female martial artists, and I can't rate her highly enough.

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.

Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.

Everyone is saying that I'm retiring, but I want to solemnly declare, that I don't want to retire, I just want to do things a bit less dangerous to my body, less dangerous action.

Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.

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.

Actually, the few good Chinese movies that foreign countries choose to import are Zhang Yimou's, and mine, a few directors, but how many movies can we make in a year? We can only make a few, while they turn them out continuously.

Martial arts is for defense. It's not for attacking. So when people are fighting, always, always, defend.

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.

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.

When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!'

I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.

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

In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

It only hurts when I'm not laughing.

I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.

I want to build up my philosophy... my philosophy with kung fu is to respect people.

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