Jackie Chan Quotes
Actor, Martial Artist
I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.
I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
Coffee is a language in itself.
I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.
When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.
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.
Money for me today does not really matter.
Jackie Chan is a myth.
Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.
I'm crazy, but I'm not too crazy.
We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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.
Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.
I want to be in 'Avatar'. I want somebody to hire me to be Superman, a Chinese Superman or Spider-Man.
I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.
I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.
I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.
I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.
A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.
I only want my work to make people happy.
If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic.
I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.
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 want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star - I am an actor, too.
I have a metal plate in my head, and can pop my shoulder and pop it back.
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.
The movie business is a big gamble.
I like to give back.
You cannot mix sports with politics.
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 give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.
I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.
I know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.
When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.
I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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.
When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.
Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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.
I know I have a responsibility to the fans.
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.
Most of the time, I'm not even working; I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.
Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.
I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.
In every movie I do have a dialogue.
I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.
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.
When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.
Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.
My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.
Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.
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.
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.
If there really is a god, then he really looks after me.
If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.
I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.
I want to show audiences I can act.
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.
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.
Actor's life is very long.
The world is too violent right now.
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.
I've choreographed all of 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 really like children to watch my movies.
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.
I give the children education.
One day, I want to make a PG film.
Of course I get hurt.
In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
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 love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.
I hate interviews - but you have to do them.
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.
In the real world, children love me.
I'm afraid to fail again.
I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.
Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'
The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.
I've got a very interesting background.
I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.
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!'
I love to clean.
Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.
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.
I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.
I play a nobody in Japan.
My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.
I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
Olympics for me is love, peace, united.