Jackie Chan Quotes

• I prepare for the worst, but hope for the best.

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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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• 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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• 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.

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

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

   

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• 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?’.

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• I’m crazy, but I’m not too crazy.

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• I’m crazy, but I’m not stupid.

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

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

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• 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.

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

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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.

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• 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.

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

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

  Jackie Chan

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

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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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• 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.

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Jackie Chan (21)

Birth:	7th April, 1954
Nationality:	Hong Konger
Profession:	Actor, Film Director, Martial Artist, Singer, Stuntman, Writer

About

Chan Kong-sang, known professionally as Jackie Chan was born in Victoria Peak, Hong Kong. He is a Hong Konger actor, film director, film writer, stunt performer, singer and martial artist. In his movies, he is known for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, use of improvised weapons, and innovative stunts, which he typically performs himself. He has trained in Kung Fu and Hapkido. He has been referenced in various pop songs, cartoons, and video games. He has released 20 albums since 1984 and has performed vocals in Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, Taiwanese and English. He often sings the theme songs of his films, which play over the closing credits. Chan's first musical recording was "Kung Fu Fighting Man", the theme song played over the closing credits of The Young Master. He is also a notable philanthropist. In 2015, Forbes magazine estimated his net worth to be $350 million. His role in several films include: The Blade Spares None, Big and Little Wong Tin Bar, The Young Master, Project A, Project A Part II, Police Story 2, 1911, CZ12, Enter the Dragon, Little Tiger of Canton, All in the Family, and Shinjuku Incident. He directed several films include: The Young Master(also writer), Project A(also writer), Project A Part II(also writer), Police Story 2(also writer), 1911, and CZ12(also writer).

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