Jackie Chan Quotes & Sayings

I've got a very interesting background. — Jackie Chan

Officials of governments that use or produce landmines should be forced to see the reality of how landmines hurt people and make them suffer, because this would surely make them stop. — Jackie Chan

I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama. — Jackie Chan

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances. — Jackie Chan

I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people say, 'Ah yes, they good.' Maybe one day, they remember Jackie Chan that way. — Jackie Chan

When I work I do it from my heart. And my heart is that I bring love to the world. When I travel around the world I bring my love. I bring so much love in my heart. I hope you can feel that. — Jackie Chan

I hope next time when we meet, we won't be fighting each other. Instead we will be drinking tea together. — Jackie Chan

I'm crazy, but I'm not too crazy. — Jackie Chan

Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax. — Jackie Chan

I know I have a responsibility to the fans. — Jackie Chan

I think every young child can learn through any martial art. They would then learn to respect their life, respect their parents, respect their country, and respect the whole world. — Jackie Chan

Martial arts is for defense. It's not for attacking. So when people are fighting, always, always, defend. — Jackie Chan

One day, I want to make a PG film. — Jackie Chan

I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid. — Jackie Chan

My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films. — Jackie Chan

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now. — Jackie Chan

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman. — Jackie Chan

Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe. — Jackie Chan

In the real world, children love me. — Jackie Chan

Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up. — Jackie Chan

Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe. — Jackie Chan

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy. — Jackie Chan

The authorities should stipulate what issues people can protest over and on what issues it is not allowed. — Jackie Chan

I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's not like an action star. — Jackie Chan

Fifteen years ago, I really give up American market, — Jackie Chan

I am the Olympic Ambassador. I always promote Olympics. I just want to say, Olympics is Olympics. [You] cannot mix with politics. Olympics for me is love, peace, [being] united. — Jackie Chan

I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now. — Jackie Chan

The ads all call me fearless, but that's just publicity. Anyone who thinks I'm not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am. — Jackie Chan

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. — Jackie Chan

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. — Jackie Chan

I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences. — Jackie Chan

It only hurts when I'm not laughing. — Jackie Chan

We live now in a global village and we are in one single family. It's our responsibility to bring friendship and love from all different places around the world and to live together in peace. — Jackie Chan

I think as a celebrity, we have to teach the young generation how to speak with the old generation. — Jackie Chan

I'm not a god - I do bad things. — Jackie Chan

The movie business is a big gamble. — Jackie Chan

I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games. — Jackie Chan

I really like to be by myself and if I do go out to look around, I dress in jeans. My secretary is constantly telling me to dress up, shave and look your best because people know you. That bothers me. I just want to be natural. — Jackie Chan

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. — Jackie Chan

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. — Jackie Chan

Sometimes you think the movie is good and BOOM! Sometimes you think it's no good. BAAM! The movie business is a big gamble. You never know. — Jackie Chan

Stigma hurts. Because of AIDS, children are bullied, isolated and shut out of school. They are missing out on education. They are missing out on medicines. Children are missing your love, care and protection. Join me. And become a stigma buster. UNITE FOR CHILDREN UNITE AGAINST AIDS — Jackie Chan

I prepare for the worst, but hope for the best. — Jackie Chan

When I came to Hollywood, I spoke no English - except nobody bullied me. Every day, I had nothing to do except training in English, to keep talking. — Jackie Chan

In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'. — Jackie Chan

I love animals. When I was young, I had two St. Bernards, I still have a dog, I have a lot of cats in my company. My wife always says, "You spend a lot of money on animals. More than even me!" — Jackie Chan

Pain is my daily routine. As long as I don't go to the hospital, it's nothing for me. — Jackie Chan

Acting keeps me young! I love that the fans like this kind of action and as long as they want me I'll continue to do it. — Jackie Chan

My affection for Taiwan ... is witnessed by everyone. My wife is Taiwanese and I am a son-in-law of Taiwan. I am half Taiwanese. — Jackie Chan

Actor's life is very long. — Jackie Chan

Martial arts is not for hurting people, it's for protecting people. — Jackie Chan

When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?' — Jackie Chan

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies. — Jackie Chan

Coffee is a language in itself. — Jackie Chan

Some people call Police Story the greatest action film of all time, and while I have to be humble and say that I disagree, it's definitely the favorite action film I've ever made. — Jackie Chan

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are. — Jackie Chan

If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be. — Jackie Chan

I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry. — Jackie Chan

As one tale ends, so another begins. — Jackie Chan

Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed. — Jackie Chan

I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers. — Jackie Chan

When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy. — Jackie Chan

It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody. — Jackie Chan

No matter how much more I practice, my English will never be perfect. If it is really terrible, I'll correct it, but otherwise, I do it my Jackie Chan way. — Jackie Chan

Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person's life. — Jackie Chan

I only want my work to make people happy. — Jackie Chan

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee. — Jackie Chan

I know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training. — Jackie Chan

I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film. — Jackie Chan

Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan. — Jackie Chan

I'm good for some things, bad for a lot of things. — Jackie Chan

Of course I get hurt. — Jackie Chan

When I was a young stunt guy the director would say: "You're useless ... " But I wanted to be the best, I wanted to be a super stunt guy. That's how I built myself, because of martial arts and everything. — Jackie Chan

You don't need a reason to be nice to someone. — Jackie Chan

I know that eventually, I'll have to change my life and my career, but I've got a lot of good years left in me yet. — Jackie Chan

If I need to buy a TV, I'll definitely buy a Japanese TV. A Chinese TV might explode. — Jackie Chan

I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro. — Jackie Chan

Bruce Lee brought the martial arts movie to the attention of the world - and without him, I don't think that anyone would have ever heard of Jackie Chan. — Jackie Chan

Olympics for me is love, peace, united. — Jackie Chan

i love reading book — Jackie Chan

I do small things. I try to do good things every day. — Jackie Chan

Don't wait for the change of circumstances.

You change the circumstances — Jackie Chan

If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live? — Jackie Chan

May we all co-operate and join this war on pirates, — Jackie Chan

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!' — Jackie Chan

I have a metal plate in my head, and can pop my shoulder and pop it back. — Jackie Chan

I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?. — Jackie Chan

Jackie Chan is a myth. — Jackie Chan

In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make. — Jackie Chan

Family is not who's blood is in you, is who you love and who loves you — Jackie Chan

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people. — Jackie Chan

Even during the promotion I told people that I didn't like Rush Hour. The jokes I didn't understand and the fighting, compared to my Hong Kong films was terrible. A lot of people didn't like it. But mostly people did like it, they really liked it. Rush Hour really brought me to the American family audience. — Jackie Chan

Every time I make an American film I just trust the American director and American writer. Myself, I would never make this kind of film. For me, those kinds of films are ridiculous. They don't make sense. — Jackie Chan

When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office. — Jackie Chan

I really like children to watch my movies. — Jackie Chan

The best fights are the ones we avoid. — Jackie Chan

If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic. — Jackie Chan

I just couldn't stop thinking about what landmines are doing to people here. I told people - my friends - about it, but it was just not enough. I knew I had to do more. — Jackie Chan

The action star's life is very short. Back in Asia, I can do whatever I want to do. I'm the producer, I'm the director, I can do so many things, but in Hollywood any time I present a script they say: "No, no, no, Rush Hour 3, Rush Hour 4." — Jackie Chan

I want to show audiences I can act. — Jackie Chan