Jet Li Quotes

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

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

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

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

Hero shows you how to solve the problem - yourself.

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.

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

I can feel very brave through all the action scenes in front of the people who are on the set, but when a girl comes close to me my face turns red because I'm so shy.

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

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

In my mind, martial arts movies are martial arts movies and action is action. It's quite different, because martial arts doesn't just have physical form; you have a philosophy, internal and external. A lot of it involves your life. How you see the world. An action film I think is just about the movement. I think it's different.

Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.

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

In acting you do a lot of research. Audience watch Jet Li because of the fight. They watch other actors because they are funny. If they want funny, they don't want to see Jet Li, they watch the other guy. That's the reality I face, until the one day I can prove I can make film without action that is a fun movie. Then everybody will say Jet Li, hmmm.

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.

I think all actors want to change. When you do something many times, over and over, you want to do something fresh. But movie is still my business. A lot of action actors want change, but no studio wants to spend money on something that is not guaranteed; not proven. I think it is very difficult. It is hard to change.

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.

My manager introduced me to the 'Rise to Honor' team. I was curious about what it took to be involved in video games, a completely new form of entertainment to me.

I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.

When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.

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

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

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.

Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.

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

I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.

In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away.

Martial arts have two parts. One is external, other internal. The external is physical part. The internal is philosophy of how to be, what kind of person learns martial arts.

I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.

In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.

Learn the way and find your own way.

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

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

A weapon isn't good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.

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.

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

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

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

The audience makes the decision of what kind of actor they want to watch. I always have said in the last 20 years, the real boss is the audience.

You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' to talk about love.

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.

I didn't go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.

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.

Love is more powerful than kicking ass.

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

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

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.