Jet Li

“Failure is a fuel for excuses.”

“In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away.”

“I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.”

“I didn't go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.”

“Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It's their culture.”

“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.”

“I do some of my stunts for the things I have learned. But if it is for something I have never learned, then I use a double.”

“I can feel very brave through all the action scenes in front of the people who are on the set, but when a girl comes close to me my face turns red because I'm so shy.”

“Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.”

“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.”

“This film 'Hero' talks about the peace of Chinese people.”

“I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.”

“My manager introduced me to the 'Rise to Honor' team. I was curious about what it took to be involved in video games, a completely new form of entertainment to me.”

“Love is more powerful than kicking ass.”

“I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.”

“Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy.”

“My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.”

“Zhang Yimou is one of the best directors on mainland China.”

“I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.”

“You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' to talk about love.”