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Jet Li
Chinese
Actor
About the author
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.
Jet Li,
Chinese
Actor
#Want
#Talk
#Hope
#People
#Culture
Zhang Yimou is one of the best directors on mainland China.
Jet Li,
Chinese
Actor
Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.
Jet Li,
Chinese
Actor
#Day
#Sun
#Artist
#Waiting
Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.
Jet Li,
Chinese
Actor
#Acting
#Forget
#Friend
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,
Chinese
Actor
#Talk
#Love
Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
Jet Li,
Chinese
Actor
#Art
When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
Jet Li,
Chinese
Actor
#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,
Chinese
Actor
#Movies
#Famous
#Philosophy
This film "Hero" talks about the peace of Chinese people.
Jet Li,
Chinese
Actor
#Film
#People
#Peace
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,
Chinese
Actor
#Talk
#Past
#President
#Future
I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
Jet Li,
Chinese
Actor
#Time
#Today
#English
#Learning
#Buddhism
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,
Chinese
Actor
#Wife
#Children
#Culture
#Education
Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
Jet Li,
Chinese
Actor
#Love
I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
Jet Li,
Chinese
Actor
#Years
#Old
#Learning
I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.
Jet Li,
Chinese
Actor
#Coach
#Want
#Life
A weapon isn't good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
Jet Li,
Chinese
Actor
I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.
Jet Li,
Chinese
Actor
#Talk
#Life
#Study
#Truth
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,
Chinese
Actor
#Talk
#Time
#People
I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
Jet Li,
Chinese
Actor
#Years
#Past
#Movies
#Buddhism
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,
Chinese
Actor
#Want
#Talk
#Culture
#Information
#Deep
#Philosophy
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,
Chinese
Actor
#Coach
#Nothing
#Years
#First
#School
#Learning
I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
Jet Li,
Chinese
Actor
#Family
#World
#Help
Hero shows you how to solve the problem - yourself.
Jet Li,
Chinese
Actor
I think "Hero" is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula.
Jet Li,
Chinese
Actor
#Violence
#Formula