Jackie Chan Quotes
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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.
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Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
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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.
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Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.
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In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
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The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.
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I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.
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Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.
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I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.
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Money for me today does not really matter.
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Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
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It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.
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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.
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When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.
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My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.
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I love to clean.
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The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.
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I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.
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Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.
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I've choreographed all of my movies.
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Most of the time, I'm not even working; I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.
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When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.
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American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.
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Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.