Jackie Chan Quotes
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.
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I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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The harder you work, the luckier you get.
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I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like.
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If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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I just didn't realize how powerful 'CHiPs' was.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.
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The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.
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The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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I am interested in people who swim in the deep end. I want to have conversations about real things with people who have experienced real things. I'm tired of talking about movies and gossiping about friends. Life is crunchy and complicated and all the more delicious.
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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.
