A biography for Jackie Chanhasn’t been written yet.
“Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.”
“I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.”
“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.”
“I know I have a responsibility to the fans.”
“Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.”
“I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.”
“I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.”
“I'm not a god - I do bad things.”
“If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic.”
“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.”
“Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.”
“My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.”
“The world is too violent right now.”
“In the real world, children love me.”
“Jackie Chan is a myth.”
“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.”
“I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.”
“I'm afraid to fail again.”
“Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.”
“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.”