Jackie Chan Quotations

Coffee is a language in itself.

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

I only want my work to make people happy.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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?'.

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

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

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.

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

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 know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.

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.

I'm not a god - I do bad things.

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

I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.

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.

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

I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I know I have a responsibility to the fans.

I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.

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.

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

If there really is a god, then he really looks after me.

Money for me today does not really matter.

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.

When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.

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

If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.

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

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

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

Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.

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

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

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

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

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

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 feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.

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

I really like children to watch my movies.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

I want to show audiences I can act.

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

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

One day, I want to make a PG film.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

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

I hate interviews - but you have to do them.

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

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

In every movie I do have a dialogue.

When I look back to when I was young, when parents said no they meant no, no matter how much you cried and how many times tears would run out, it would be useless. We knew that losing our temper and crying would not get us what we wanted so we wouldn't dare to lose our temper or cry easily.

He was sitting down in a chair. The customers were telling me the crazy guy is here. When he started kicking the kid, then we called police.

He wants final editing rights and the final look at the movie and so on,

Jackie was very saddened to hear the news about the man who often played the part of a mentor to Jackie.

I saw babies every day, how noisy they were. If one cried, then one, two, three, four, they would all cry.

Today when our actors go to the U.S., what movies can they make? Can they appear in 'Titanic'? Could they do 'Kramer vs. Kramer'? No. No actor could do it,

Breathing hurts. ... It hurts to draw my fist. It's been hard filming fight scenes these past two days.

There was a lot of criticism on the Internet saying that the Oscar results were unfair.

I've let my family down, but I'm very lucky. My wife has forgiven me. ... She's supported me all these years, she will do so now.

Asia has a population of two billion so why isn't (Asian film) thriving? It's because of piracy and the Internet and piracy,

For example: a child wanted to eat something and the parents refused, and as the child began to act up and pretended to cry because there were no tears his parents immediately surrendered and offered the little master food with two hands.

It may be funny to watch our skit. But there's nothing funny about counterfeits.

It's hardest to get a girl to smile. She just doesn't smile. She looks at the people manning the cameras like they're idiots. She would smile right after we run out of film.

They waste two hours to check all the things

These things just happen. I always put safety first when filming, but still, sometimes things just go wrong. It was just an ordinary accident. The stunt man working with me had on the wrong shoes and I got hurt.