Jackie Chan Quotes

I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.

- Jackie Chan

De Niro, Robert De Niro, Robert

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.

- Jackie Chan

Very, Eastwood, De Niro, Robert

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.

- Jackie Chan

Kid, Eastwood, Clint, Kirk

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

- Jackie Chan

American, Films, Audiences, Asian

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

- Jackie Chan

Nobody, Anyone, Jackie, Superman

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

- Jackie Chan

Next, Bruce Lee, Lee, Jackie

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.

- Jackie Chan

Own, Everybody, Choreograph, Jackie

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.

- Jackie Chan

I Remember, Maybe, Buster, Jackie

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

- Jackie Chan

People, Stunt, Lot, Jackie

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

- Jackie Chan

Very, Still, Mostly, Jackie

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

- Jackie Chan

Study, Only, Like, Jackie

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

- Jackie Chan

Culture, Cost, Harm, Adapting

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

- Jackie Chan

Head, Metal, Pop, Shoulder

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

- Jackie Chan

Learn, Always, Helping, Helping People

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

- Jackie Chan

Lucky, Feel, Helping, Helping People

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

- Jackie Chan

Way, Like, Very, Chaotic

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

- Jackie Chan

Play, Special, Effects, Spy

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

- Jackie Chan

Run, More, Minutes, Ice Cream

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

- Jackie Chan

Hate, Kind, Yes, Dilemma

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

- Jackie Chan

Want, Hire, Chinese, Spider-Man

You cannot mix sports with politics.

- Jackie Chan

Sports, Politics, Cannot, Mix

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.

- Jackie Chan

Income, Speculation, Still, Businesses

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

- Jackie Chan

Trust, American, Directors, Every Time

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?'.

- Jackie Chan

Hollywood, In The Past, Like, Humiliated

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.

- Jackie Chan

Perfect, Everybody, Telling, Martial Arts

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.

- Jackie Chan

Audience, Been, Films, Action Films

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.

- Jackie Chan

Fearless, Mind, Am, Scared

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.

- Jackie Chan

Taiwan, Witnessed, Taiwanese, Son-In-Law

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

- Jackie Chan

Love, See, Lot, Olympic Games

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.

- Jackie Chan

Distance, About, Gotten, Calculate

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

- Jackie Chan

Movie, Downs, Too, Ups

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

- Jackie Chan

Society, Entertainment, Educate

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

- Jackie Chan

Small Things, Small, Things, Good Things

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.

- Jackie Chan

Will, More, More People, Visit

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

- Jackie Chan

Movies, Watched, Learned, Depressed

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

- Jackie Chan

Myself, Everyone, Sure, Coordinator

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.

- Jackie Chan

Big, Some, Very, Box Office

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

- Jackie Chan

Education, Money, Young, Box Office

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.

- Jackie Chan

Treat, Star, Audience, Slowly

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

- Jackie Chan

Learning, Art, About, Martial

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.

- Jackie Chan

Artist, Like, Violent, Martial

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

- Jackie Chan

My Life, Star, Always, All My Life

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.

- Jackie Chan

American, Doing, Tell, So Many People

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

- Jackie Chan

Think, Will, I Think, Action Movies

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

- Jackie Chan

Some, Hollywood, Hire, Producer

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.

- Jackie Chan

Release, Movie, Boom, Jackie

Jackie Chan is a myth.

- Jackie Chan

Myth, Jackie Chan, Jackie

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

- Jackie Chan

Wake Up, Shower, Goes, Jackie

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!'

- Jackie Chan

Audience, My Own, I Write, Jackie

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

- Jackie Chan

Dream, Stop, Tells, Filming

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

- Jackie Chan

Myself, Sometimes, Hours, Filming

Of course I get hurt.

- Jackie Chan

Course, Get, Hurt

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

- Jackie Chan

Movies, Just, Thank, Good Movies

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

- Jackie Chan

I Am, Understand, Now, Older

The movie business is a big gamble.

- Jackie Chan

Business, Big, Movie, Gamble

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.

- Jackie Chan

Beginning, Want, Need, Gradually

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

- Jackie Chan

World, Barriers, Cultural, Few Things

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

- Jackie Chan

Country, Lot, Opposed, Olympics

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

- Jackie Chan

Love, Peace, United, Olympics

In every movie I do have a dialogue.

- Jackie Chan

Movie, Every, Dialogue

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

- Jackie Chan

Relax, Sometimes, Need, Karaoke

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

- Jackie Chan

Go, Over, Like, Everywhere

I want to show audiences I can act.

- Jackie Chan

Want, Act, Show, Audiences

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

- Jackie Chan

Listen, Never, Youngest, Kids

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

- Jackie Chan

Got, Very, Began, Buying

Coffee is a language in itself.

- Jackie Chan

Language, Itself, Coffee

I've got a very interesting background.

- Jackie Chan

Interesting, Got, Very, Background

I hate interviews - but you have to do them.

- Jackie Chan

Hate, You, Them, Interviews

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.

- Jackie Chan

My Life, Career, Star, Action

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.

- Jackie Chan

My Life, Career, Star, Action

I know I have a responsibility to the fans.

- Jackie Chan

Responsibility, Know, Fans

In the real world, children love me.

- Jackie Chan

Love, Children, World, The Real World

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

- Jackie Chan

Controlled, Otherwise, Chinese

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.

- Jackie Chan

Perfect, String, Like, Speak

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

- Jackie Chan

Wish, Big, Films, Appeared

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

- Jackie Chan

God, Bad, Things, Bad Things

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

- Jackie Chan

Sure, Before, Stunt, Safe

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

- Jackie Chan

Give, Tried, His, Trick

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

- Jackie Chan

Change, Control, Your, Circumstances

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

- Jackie Chan

Play, Die, Bad, Bad Guy

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

- Jackie Chan

School, Hollywood, Spoke, English

Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.

- Jackie Chan

Sometimes, Very, Embarrassed

I play a nobody in Japan.

- Jackie Chan

Play, Nobody, Japan

I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.

- Jackie Chan

Crazy, Stupid

I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star - I am an actor, too.

- Jackie Chan

Star, Want, Hollywood, Audience

One day, I want to make a PG film.

- Jackie Chan

Day, Want, Film, One Day

The world is too violent right now.

- Jackie Chan

World, Now, Too, Violent

I love to clean.

- Jackie Chan

Love, I Love, Clean

I'm crazy, but I'm not too crazy.

- Jackie Chan

Too, Crazy

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

- Jackie Chan

Me, Then, After, Looks

I'm afraid to fail again.

- Jackie Chan

Afraid, Again, Fail

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

- Jackie Chan

Freedom, Confused, Now, Sure

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