Jackie Chan Quotes
"Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances."
- Jackie Chan
(Related: Change, Control, Circumstances)
"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
(Related: Car, American, Hurt, Safety)
"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
(Related: People, Promotion, Years)
"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
(Related: People)
"I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?."
- Jackie Chan
(Related: Hate, Violence)
"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
(Related: Life, Action, Career, Want)
"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
(Related: Work, American, Office)
"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
(Related: Money, Movies, Financial, Income, Nothing)
"I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan."
- Jackie Chan
(Related: First)
"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
(Related: Mind, Publicity)
"I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years."
- Jackie Chan
(Related: Movies, Action, Will, Years)
"I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid."
- Jackie Chan
"Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead."
- Jackie Chan
(Related: Computers, Study)
"Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality."
- Jackie Chan
(Related: Technology, Cinema, Culture, Harm, Losing, Originality)
"I'm crazy, but I'm not too crazy."
- Jackie Chan
"I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life."
- Jackie Chan
(Related: Life, Action, Fighting)
"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
(Related: People, English, Hollywood, Past)
"Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again."
- Jackie Chan
(Related: Parents)
"Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie."
- Jackie Chan
(Related: Play)
"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
(Related: People, Day, Talk, Want)