Jackie Chan Quotes

I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

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• What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Respect
  • Band
  • Beatles

• As for T.B. Joshua, I am a descendant of my family in Arigidi-Akoko in Ondo State, Nigeria - but as for the divine nature, the power of God affects my life to give peace to people, deliverance to people, and healing to people.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Pretty
  • Talk
  • I Can

• I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Old
  • Jeans
  • Boots

• I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in the shadows so you shine. Just ask, it will be done and I will prove my love, until you're sure that I'm the one.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Done
  • Love
  • Home

• My personal style reflects my music. My music and how I dress is just how I express myself; it's just me. My music is urban pop, and my style of dressing is urban but still girly. I like that combination. The contrast is very nice.

  

  Becky G
  • Music
  • Nice
  • Style

• Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • People
  • Important
  • Literature

• I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Guy

• My dad was a voracious news consumer. I remember just sitting with my family all the time. I would sit on his lap and read the paper with him. He would read it to me.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Time
  • Family
  • Remember

• Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Weak
  • Once
  • Weary

• I've been making some more electronic music, which I really enjoy doing.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Music
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • Age
  • Like
  • Feel

• I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Music
  • Business
  • Nature

• Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly, surprisingly, and irresistibly.

  

  Os Guinness
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Seed

• The problem is that there is many great chefs and many great cookbooks, but none of them work at home.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Work
  • Great
  • Home

• Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • You
  • Mistake
  • Most

• But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Strong

• One thing people would be surprised about is that although hard rock and heavy metal are without question 90% of what I listen to and my passion, there are other things I enjoy. My first ever favorite band in my life before KISS was a power-pop band called The Raspberries.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Life
  • Power

• At first, I didn't really have a passion for acting.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Passion
  • Acting
  • First

• You never really know what's going to happen. You never know what the audience is going to be like or how they're going to behave.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Never
  • Audience
  • Happen

• Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.

  

  Ian St. John
  • Work
  • Mean
  • Media

• With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • People
  • Children
  • Night

• I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Never
  • First
  • Be The First