Top 50 Jet Li Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Learn the way and find your own way.”

— Jet Li

2. “I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.”

— Jet Li

3. “A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.”

— Jet Li

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4. “Failure is a fuel for excuses.”

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5. “A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.”

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6. “In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.”

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7. “Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.”

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8. “There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.”

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9. “Everything too fast is not good but everything too slow is also not good. You need balance. That’s why I like martial arts: it always tells you how to control your body, your mind, your heart. Balance. Balance can keep the world’s peace. I think that’s a very good thing.”

— Jet Li

10. “Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.”

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11. “I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.”

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12. “One cannot choose how one’s life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage.”

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13. “You can beat me up, but don’t touch my hair, I will kill you!”

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14. “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.”

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15. “If you are always allowed to stop training whenever you feel discomfort, you will find it too easy to give yourself permission to quit.”

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16. “My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy.”

— Jet Li

17. “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.”

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18. “Martial arts have two parts. One is external, other internal. The external is physical part. The internal is philosophy of how to be, what kind of person learns martial arts.”

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19. “Hero shows you how to solve the problem – yourself.”

— Jet Li

20. “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.”

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

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22. “I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won’t make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years.”

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23. “Love is more powerful than kicking ass.”

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

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25. “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.”

— Jet Li

26. “While films are a very visual and emotional artistic medium, video games take it one step further into the realm of a unique personal experience.”

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27. “I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life – the relationship between parent and child.”

— Jet Li

28. “I need to talk about Chinese culture. We have deep, strong philosophy and culture. I want to share some information, tell the worldwide audience.”

— Jet Li

29. “You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.”

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30. “When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.”

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

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32. “I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.”

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

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34. “This film ‘Hero’ talks about the peace of Chinese people.”

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

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36. “I think ‘Hero’ is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula.”

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37. “But recently I’ve, the past few years, I’m more focused on meditation. It’s not a physical part. It’s more mental part, to understand life.”

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38. “The audience makes the decision of what kind of actor they want to watch. I always have said the real boss is the audience.”

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

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

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41. “I can watch CNN on television or the Internet to find out what happened in Hong Kong ten minutes ago. After all, it doesn’t matter where something is made, we’re all part of the same big family now.”

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42. “I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.”

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43. “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.”

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44. “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.”

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45. “And lot of Asian audiences and reporters don’t like me to act as a bad guy. But I think I want to become an actor, I want to try different way.”

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46. “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.”

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47. “Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the ’70s.”

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48. “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.”

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

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50. “Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.”

— Jet Li