Top 120 Jackie Chan Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.”

— Jackie Chan

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2. “Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person’s life.”

— Jackie Chan

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3. “I’m crazy, but I’m not stupid.”

— Jackie Chan

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4. “Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.”

— Jackie Chan

5. “Being still and doing nothing are two completely different things.”

— Jackie Chan

6. “The best fights are the ones we avoid.”

— Jackie Chan

7. “Nothing makes me more determined to succeed than someone telling me something’s impossible.”

— Jackie Chan

8. “Family is not who’s blood is in you, is who you love and who loves you.”

— Jackie Chan

9. “I am really, really tired.”

— Jackie Chan

10. “As one tale ends, so another begins.”

— Jackie Chan

11. “Martial arts is not for hurting people, it’s for protecting people.”

— Jackie Chan

12. “Coffee is a language in itself.”

— Jackie Chan

13. “Kung fu lives in everything we do. It lives in how we put on a jacket and how we take off a jacket. It lives in how we treat people. Everything is kung fu.”

— Jackie Chan

14. “Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.”

— Jackie Chan

15. “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

16. “I’m tired of fighting. I’ve always known that I can’t be an action star all my life.”

— Jackie Chan

17. “I do small things. I try to do good things every day.”

— Jackie Chan

18. “Olympics for me is love, peace, united.”

— Jackie Chan

19. “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

20. “When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.”

— Jackie Chan

21. “I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.”

— Jackie Chan

22. “I only want my work to make people happy.”

— Jackie Chan

23. “Pain is my daily routine. As long as I don’t go to the hospital, it’s nothing for me.”

— Jackie Chan

24. “We have to do what we can to help wherever and whenever it is possible for us to help.”

— Jackie Chan

25. “Jackie Chan is a myth.”

— Jackie Chan

26. “When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.”

— Jackie Chan

27. “Of course I get hurt.”

— Jackie Chan

28. “Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?”

— Jackie Chan

29. “You don’t need a reason to be nice to someone.”

— Jackie Chan

30. “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

31. “We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.”

— Jackie Chan

32. “My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That’s the Jackie Chan diary.”

— Jackie Chan

33. “I hope next time when we meet, we won’t be fighting each other. Instead we will be drinking tea together.”

— Jackie Chan

34. “I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.”

— Jackie Chan

35. “Don’t try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.”

— Jackie Chan

36. “When I was young I trained a lot. I trained my mind, I trained my eyes, trained my thinking, how to help people. And it trained me how to deal with pressure.”

— Jackie Chan

37. “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

38. “The children right now, the young children, everybody should go to a martial arts school. Why? Because as soon as they go to a martial arts school, they learn discipline.”

— Jackie Chan

39. “I allowed myself to be bullied because I was scared and didn’t know how to defend myself. I was bullied until I prevented a new student from being bullied. By standing up for him, I learned to stand up for myself.”

— Jackie Chan

40. “Money for me today does not really matter.”

— Jackie Chan

41. “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

42. “My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.”

— Jackie Chan

43. “It only hurts when I’m not laughing.”

— Jackie Chan

44. “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

45. “If I need to buy a TV, I’ll definitely buy a Japanese TV. A Chinese TV might explode.”

— Jackie Chan

46. “As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‘I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.’ I just think my son is too lazy.”

— Jackie Chan

47. “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

48. “When I go out, people look at me with a puzzled expression on their faces thinking, “You’re Jackie Chan?” When people stare at me, it makes me uncomfortable. More and more I find that I just stay in my hotel when I am working.”

— Jackie Chan

49. “Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.”

— Jackie Chan

50. “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