Jet Li Quotes


"Zhang Yimou is one of the best directors on mainland China."
- Jet Li
"Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun."
- Jet Li
(Related: Artist, Day, Sun, Waiting)

"Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie."
- Jet Li
(Related: Friend, Acting, Forget)

"You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" to talk about love."
- Jet Li
(Related: Love, Talk)

"Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art."
- Jet Li
(Related: Art)

"When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family."
- Jet Li
(Related: Family)

"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."
- Jet Li
(Related: Movies, Famous, Philosophy)

"This film "Hero" talks about the peace of Chinese people."
- Jet Li
(Related: Peace, People, Film)

"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."
- Jet Li
(Related: Future, Past, President, Talk)

"I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad."
- Jet Li
(Related: Time, Buddhism, English, Learning, Today)

"My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures."
- Jet Li
(Related: Education, Wife, Children, Culture)

"Love is more powerful than kicking ass."
- Jet Li
(Related: Love)

"I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old."
- Jet Li
(Related: Learning, Old, Years)

"I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life."
- Jet Li
(Related: Life, Coach, Want)

"A weapon isn't good or bad, depends on the person who uses it."
- Jet Li
"I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life."
- Jet Li
(Related: Life, Truth, Study, Talk)

"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."
- Jet Li
(Related: Time, People, Talk)

"I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat."
- Jet Li
(Related: Movies, Buddhism, Past, Years)

"I need to talk about Chinese culture. We have deep, strong philosophy and culture. I want to share some information, tell the worldwide audience."
- Jet Li
(Related: Culture, Deep, Information, Philosophy, Talk, Want)

"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."
- Jet Li
(Related: Coach, First, Learning, Nothing, School, Years)

"I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other."
- Jet Li
(Related: Family, Help, World)

"Hero shows you how to solve the problem - yourself."
- Jet Li
"I think "Hero" is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula."
- Jet Li
(Related: Formula, Violence)