A biography for Jackie Chanhasn’t been written yet.
“I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.”
“I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.”
“When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.”
“Most of the time, I'm not even working; I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.”
“I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.”
“I want to show audiences I can act.”
“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!'”
“I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.”
“When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'”
“I have a metal plate in my head, and can pop my shoulder and pop it back.”
“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.”
“Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.”
“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.”
“In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.”
“Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.”
“I give the children education.”
“I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.”
“Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.”
“I'm crazy, but I'm not too crazy.”
“I really like children to watch my movies.”