Jet Li Quotes

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

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• When people say hello to me, I feel like maybe I know them from somewhere, because they say, like, 'Hi! How are you?' And I'm like, 'Oh, hi!' And then I realize, 'Oh, no, they just think they know me because they watched me in a movie.' Which is cool, but definitely not a normal thing.

  

  Dakota Fanning
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• Wes Craven's 'Shocker' is one of my favorite soundtracks. I don't know where that movie stands in the critical eye of cinema, but it was a really fun movie because of all the bands that were part of it.

  

  Adam Green
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• One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.

  

  Sal Mineo
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• I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.

  

  Olivier Martinez
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• I would love to do a 'Scream'-type movie.

  

  Abigail Breslin
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• I really loved 'Witches of Eastwick', the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson and Cher.

  

  Madchen Amick
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• There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
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• I do not support a livable wage.

  

  Karen Handel
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• The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.

  

  A. R. Rahman
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• I went to Yugoslavia to make a movie. People saw me there and asked me to do a movie in Germany. And that led to a movie in Italy. Before I knew it, I was in Europe for most of the next 10 years.

  

  Edd Byrnes
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• As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.

  

  Fede Alvarez
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• One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.

  

  Sam Mendes
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• 'Jaws' was the ultimate man vs. nature movie, and it was a movie that was basically three people against the elements, so that was the biggest influence on 'Frozen.'

  

  Adam Green
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• I want to move people, stir something within them that makes them feel. That's what a movie should do and an actor should do, make you feel something. I think that's why people love films so much.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
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• I read the script for 'Somnia' when I was filming 'Oculus,' and I remember calling my manager going, 'I really need to do this movie,' and he's like, 'How about you finish this one first and then you see it?' I was like, 'I don't need to. I don't need to. You need to read this. I need to do this movie. The script is very good.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
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• I would never try and do a remake off a movie. I think that's a whole different thing. I think everyone will always remember the first movie, and they will always compare it with the second one.

  

  Carly Schroeder
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• I'm the worst rider. I'm a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason, people are always trying to get me on a horse in a movie.

  

  Dana Delany
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• Ever since 'Star Wars,' there was a rash of how a movie was made. I remember that as a kid. I never really understood how movies were made until that movie, because it was such a technical accomplishment. Since then, you've seen more and more and more, for all different kinds of films, about what goes into the process.

  

  Patrick Lussier
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• I haven't been like, 'Is there a sword in that movie? All right, I'll do it!'

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• When we think about a great movie, I mean, what do we think about? We think about story, we think about character. And when the visual effects aren't perfect, we forgive it.

  

  Freddie Wong
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• If people want to watch a CG movie, there's plenty out there.

  

  James Wan
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• I always try to balance life by thinking failure of any kind, be it relationship or any project, should not affect me as an individual.

  

  Karan Patel
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• I almost always do things that I like, in some form or fashion. Every once in awhile that means that I don't think the script is any good and I don't have any trust in the people, but the film is shooting in Sri Lanka, or somewhere like that, so I'm going.

  

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

  

  Jet Li
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