Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Chinese actor Jackie Chan.
Last updated on November 9, 2024.
In every movie I do have a dialogue.
When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'
I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star - I am an actor, too.
I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's not like an action star.
I love to clean.
I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.
The movie business is a big gamble.
I like to give back.
I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.
Most of the time, I'm not even working; I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.
I've choreographed all of my movies.
I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.
When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.
I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.
I really like children to watch my movies.
In the real world, children love me.
Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic.
My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.
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.
I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.
I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.
I'm not a god - I do bad things.
Olympics for me is love, peace, united.
When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.
When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.
One day, I want to make a PG film.
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.
Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.
I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
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!'
If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.
I hate interviews - but you have to do them.
I'm afraid to fail again.
I know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.
I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.
Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.
I want to be in 'Avatar'. I want somebody to hire me to be Superman, a Chinese Superman or Spider-Man.
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 play a nobody in Japan.
I only want my work to make people happy.
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.
I've got a very interesting background.
Pain is my daily routine. As long as I don't go to the hospital, it's nothing for me.
Family is not who's blood is in you, is who you love and who loves you
Being still and doing nothing are two completely different things
I allowed myself to be bullied because I was scared and didn't know how to defend myself. I was bullied until I prevented a new student from being bullied. By standing up for him, I learned to stand up for myself.
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.
I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.
You don't need a reason to be nice to someone.
As one tale ends, so another begins.
Nothing makes me more determined to succeed than someone telling me something's impossible.
I hope next time when we meet, we won't be fighting each other. Instead we will be drinking tea together.
We have to do what we can to help wherever and whenever it is possible for us to help.
The best fights are the ones we avoid.
Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person's life.
Martial arts is for defense. It's not for attacking. So when people are fighting, always, always, defend.
When I was young I trained a lot. I trained my mind, I trained my eyes, trained my thinking, how to help people. And it trained me how to deal with pressure.
Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.
I'm good for some things, bad for a lot of things.