Coffee is a language in itself.
Jackie Chan
Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.
Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.
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.
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.
Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.
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.
Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
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.
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.
I have a metal plate in my head, and can pop my shoulder and pop it back.
Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.
I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.
If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.
If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic.
My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.
Money for me today does not really matter.
Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.
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.
The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.
I only want my work to make people happy.
I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.
Jackie Chan is a myth.
I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.
We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
If there really is a god, then he really looks after me.
When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'
I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.
Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.
Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
Olympics for me is love, peace, united.
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 you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.
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 wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.
You cannot mix sports with politics.
When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.
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.
Actor's life is very long.
I want to show audiences I can act.
I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
I give the children education.
I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.
