Jet Li Quotes (28 Quotes)


    I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

    We need families to start taking more responsibility in understanding which movie is good for their children and which movie is not.

    I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.

    Hero shows you how to solve the problem - yourself.

    You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" to talk about love.


    I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.

    Zhang Yimou is one of the best directors on mainland China.

    Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope.

    Love is more powerful than kicking ass.

    My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.

    I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.

    I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.

    Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.

    He said, 'Here is the deal Play the bad guy first, then I give you a good guy next,' ... I asked him what the movie was called, (and) he said 'Romeo Must Die.' (It) sounds like a romantic story, not an action movie.

    A weapon isn't good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.

    My personal philosophy stems from the deep understanding of martial arts and Chinese culture, and especially in the past eight years, the Buddhism thoughts shaped my ideology.

    I think "Hero" is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula.

    I need to talk about Chinese culture. We have deep, strong philosophy and culture. I want to share some information, tell the worldwide audience.

    Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.

    Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.

    I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.

    Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

    This film "Hero" talks about the peace of Chinese people.

    Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s.

    When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.

    I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.

    Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and still meditate.

    No matter Fearless is warmly received or not, I hope young Chinese generation can appreciate it from the point of the world rather than being confined to the Chinese culture and movie. It is a narrow idea that Chinese Kong Fu must defeat all the foreigners.


    More Jet Li Quotations (Based on Topics)


    Movies - Art - Past - Custom & Convention - People - Education - Life - Family - Buddhism - Love - World - Generation - Wisdom & Knowledge - Truth - Heroism - Friendship - Violence - Children - Philosophy - View All Jet Li Quotations

    Related Authors


    Bob Geldof - Wesley Snipes - Tony Danza - Sean Penn - Michael Keaton - Jean Reno - Jean Claude Van Damme - Cuba Gooding, Jr. - Christian Slater - Casey Affleck


Authors (by First Name)

A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M
N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z

Other Inspiring Sections