Jackie Chan quotes:

I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people say, 'Ah yes, they good.' Maybe one day, they remember Jackie Chan that way.

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.

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.

After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.

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.

My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.

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.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.

I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

I really like children to watch my movies.

I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.

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.

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, 'I don't want to become like Bruce Lee's son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.' I just think my son is too lazy.

When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.

Actor's life is very long.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

Most of the time, I'm not even working; I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.

I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.

The world is too violent right now.

Money for me today does not really matter.

In every movie I do have a dialogue.

Of course I get hurt.

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

The movie business is a big gamble.

I want to be in 'Avatar'. I want somebody to hire me to be Superman, a Chinese Superman or Spider-Man.

The ads all call me fearless, but that's just publicity. Anyone who thinks I'm not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.

American movies show you how to fight and break armsand necks. I want to make the action in my movies like dancing.

I allowed myself to be bullied because I was scared and didn't know how to defend myself. I was bullied until I prevented a new student from being bullied. By standing up for him, I learned to stand up for myself.

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One thing I did pick up from Cannonball Run was the use of bloopers and outtakes under the final credits, which I've done in all my movies since.

Coffee is a language in itself.

Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?

I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.

We live now in a global village and we are in one single family. It's our responsibility to bring friendship and love from all different places around the world and to live together in peace.

I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.

I hope next time when we meet, we won't be fighting each other. Instead we will be drinking tea together.

In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.

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

Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.

Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.

Kung fu lives in everything we do. It lives in how we put on a jacket and how we take off a jacket. It lives in how we treat people. Everything is kung fu.

Officials of governments that use or produce landmines should be forced to see the reality of how landmines hurt people and make them suffer, because this would surely make them stop.

I just couldn't stop thinking about what landmines are doing to people here. I told people - my friends - about it, but it was just not enough. I knew I had to do more.

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.

I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.

I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.

I want to build up my philosophy... my philosophy with kung fu is to respect people.

The action star's life is very short. Back in Asia, I can do whatever I want to do. I'm the producer, I'm the director, I can do so many things, but in Hollywood any time I present a script they say: "No, no, no, Rush Hour 3, Rush Hour 4."

Even during the promotion I told people that I didn't like Rush Hour. The jokes I didn't understand and the fighting, compared to my Hong Kong films was terrible. A lot of people didn't like it. But mostly people did like it, they really liked it. Rush Hour really brought me to the American family audience.

Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.

When I try to speak perfectly then I am not Jackie Chan anymore. Some words sound like I am trying too hard. The whole thing is not me.

The children right now, the young children, everybody should go to a martial arts school. Why? Because as soon as they go to a martial arts school, they learn discipline.

More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.

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.

I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

When I'm making an American film, it's more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, 'What are you doing!? Tell me first!' There are so many restrictions.

My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.

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.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic.

Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

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.

Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.

When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!'

Jackie Chan is a myth.

I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.

Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.

I just make good movies. That's the way I thank my fans.

I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.

I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

In the real world, children love me.

I give the children education.

When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'

I have a metal plate in my head, and can pop my shoulder and pop it back.

I'm afraid to fail again.

I only want my work to make people happy.

I know I have a responsibility to the fans.

I am really, really tired.

Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.

Nothing makes me more determined to succeed than someone telling me something's impossible.

Family is not who's blood is in you, is who you love and who loves you

The best fights are the ones we avoid.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person's life.

I do small things. I try to do good things every day. If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.

I want to make people laugh and I want to try to encourage world peace.

If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?

Bruce Lee brought the martial arts movie to the attention of the world - and without him, I don't think that anyone would have ever heard of Jackie Chan.

We have to do what we can to help wherever and whenever it is possible for us to help.

Every time I make an American film I just trust the American director and American writer. Myself, I would never make this kind of film. For me, those kinds of films are ridiculous. They don't make sense.

Being still and doing nothing are two completely different things

You don't need a reason to be nice to someone.

I'm good for some things, bad for a lot of things.

I think every young child can learn through any martial art. They would then learn to respect their life, respect their parents, respect their country, and respect the whole world.

Martial arts is for defense. It's not for attacking. So when people are fighting, always, always, defend.

I do small things. I try to do good things every day.

When I was young I trained a lot. I trained my mind, I trained my eyes, trained my thinking, how to help people. And it trained me how to deal with pressure.

No matter how much more I practice, my English will never be perfect. If it is really terrible, I'll correct it, but otherwise, I do it my Jackie Chan way.

Most of the time I'm not even working, I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky. If there really is a god, then he really looks after me. All these years he's taken care of me, my career keeps getting better and better. Whatever I want just seems to come. And it keeps coming. So I promised myself that I have to pay for this, payback society. So this is why I started my Jackie Chan Foundation to help children and sick kids and people in hospitals.

When I work I do it from my heart. And my heart is that I bring love to the world. When I travel around the world I bring my love. I bring so much love in my heart. I hope you can feel that.

In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

Fifteen years ago, I really give up American market,

I love animals. When I was young, I had two St. Bernards, I still have a dog, I have a lot of cats in my company. My wife always says, "You spend a lot of money on animals. More than even me!"

When I was a young stunt guy the director would say: "You're useless..." But I wanted to be the best, I wanted to be a super stunt guy. That's how I built myself, because of martial arts and everything.

I hate interviews - but you have to do them.

The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.

Pain is my daily routine. As long as I don't go to the hospital, it's nothing for me.