Top 48 Quotes by Jet Li

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Working on a film, the setup for an action sequence takes a long time, and we need to shoot the scene many times to get different angles.

People would come to me and say, 'Jet, your Kung Fu is pretty good, do you want to be an action star when you grow up?' At 17, I was given the script and I went to make the movie.

Watching movies in the U.S. is great fun because they get every joke, they smile, they laugh so much; it's a great feeling.

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.