Top 181 Quotes & Sayings by Jackie Chan
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Chinese actor Jackie Chan.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
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.
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.
Money for me today does not really matter.
Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
I just make good movies. That's the way I thank my fans.
I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
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.
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.
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.
Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be 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.
I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.
A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.
I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.
Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
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.
In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.
Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.
Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.
My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.
If there really is a god, then he really looks after me.
Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
You cannot mix sports with politics.
My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.
Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.
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.
When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.
I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.
I give the children education.
We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
I know I have a responsibility to the fans.
Jackie Chan is a myth.
As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, 'I don't want to become like Bruce Lee's son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.' I just think my son is too lazy.
Actor's life is very long.
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?'.
I want to show audiences I can act.
Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.
Of course I get hurt.
Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.
I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.
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.
Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.
I have a metal plate in my head, and can pop my shoulder and pop it back.
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.
The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.
I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.
I'm crazy, but I'm not too crazy.
Coffee is a language in itself.
When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.
The world is too violent right now.
I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.
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.
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