Top 120 Jackie Chan Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “When I try to speak perfectly then I am not Jackie Chan anymore. Some words sound like I am trying too hard. The whole thing is not me.”

— Jackie Chan

52. “Actor’s life is very long.”

— Jackie Chan

53. “I hate interviews – but you have to do them.”

— Jackie Chan

54. “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

55. “I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we’re not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want.”

— Jackie Chan

56. “I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.”

— Jackie Chan

57. “I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.”

— Jackie Chan

58. “I want to show audiences I can act.”

— Jackie Chan

59. “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

60. “Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.”

— Jackie Chan

61. “Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.”

— Jackie Chan

62. “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

63. “My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. Listing what body parts he has broken.”

— Jackie Chan

64. “I’m good for some things, bad for a lot of things.”

— Jackie Chan

65. “Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.”

— Jackie Chan

66. “Most of the time, I’m not even working; I’m just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.”

— Jackie Chan

67. “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

68. “I’ve seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.”

— Jackie Chan

69. “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

70. “In the real world, children love me.”

— Jackie Chan

71. “When I look at young kids today I just don’t believe it, parents take away the Gameboy and they’re suicidal. They cannot take the pressure.”

— Jackie Chan

72. “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

73. “Sometimes, I’m very embarrassed.”

— Jackie Chan

74. “I don’t want to be an action star, an action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.”

— Jackie Chan

75. “I play a nobody in Japan.”

— Jackie Chan

76. “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

77. “One thing I did pick up from Cannonball Run was the use of bloopers and outtakes under the final credits, which I’ve done in all my movies since.”

— Jackie Chan

78. “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

79. “Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.”

— Jackie Chan

80. “I have a metal plate in my head, and can pop my shoulder and pop it back.”

— Jackie Chan

81. “I loved cowboy movies when I was a kid. When I was five years old, I was already wearing a cowboy hat and suit. When I grew up, I knew John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Kirk Douglas and so on.”

— Jackie Chan

82. “You cannot mix sports with politics.”

— Jackie Chan

83. “I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.”

— Jackie Chan

84. “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

85. “I think as a celebrity, we have to teach the young generation how to speak with the old generation.”

— Jackie Chan

86. “Martial arts is for defense. It’s not for attacking. So when people are fighting, always, always, defend.”

— Jackie Chan

87. “We’re all the same inside.”

— Jackie Chan

88. “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

89. “I want to make people laugh and I want to try to encourage world peace.”

— Jackie Chan

90. “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

91. “The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.”

— Jackie Chan

92. “Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.”

— Jackie Chan

93. “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

94. “The authorities should stipulate what issues people can protest over and on what issues it is not allowed.”

— Jackie Chan

95. “The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.”

— Jackie Chan

96. “After all those years in Asia, I don’t have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and – Boom! – people go.”

— Jackie Chan

97. “My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.”

— Jackie Chan

98. “I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.”

— Jackie Chan

99. “When I am making a film, I know what to do in front of a camera. What frightens me are the scenes with dialogue. Sometime they really want me to speak perfectly and I don’t like that.”

— Jackie Chan

100. “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