Jackie Chan Quotes
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I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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Low budget movies make lots of money.
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I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
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My only career strategy is to just not do anything that I have to be completely ashamed of afterwards! Whether it's TV or movies, I feel lucky to be working.
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The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
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I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
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If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
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I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
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Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.
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I was never a big fan of horror. I got into it making these films, but I don't ever see myself doing slasher movies. The kind of horror film I like is 'The Shining.' I don't really like slashers, but I love thrillers with tension.
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There's nothing more American than movies.
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I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.
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And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
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I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.
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I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.
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I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.
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Movies are too literal.
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Teachers need time to engage with colleagues - whether shadowing, mentoring, co-teaching or conferring. They need a voice in school decisions and to be trusted as professionals.
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I cannot get myself interested in video games. I've been given video game players and they just sit there connected to my TVs gathering dust until eventually I unplug them so I can put in another special-region DVD player.
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I was brought up in a house full of women; the first time I realised no one was interrupting me was when I was on stage - that's probably the subconscious reason I became an actor.
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The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself makes things go and creates confidence.
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.
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I've choreographed all of my movies.
