Jackie Chan

I'm not a god - I do bad things.

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.

I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.

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

I like to give back.

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.

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?'.

The world is too violent right now.

If there really is a god, then he really looks after me.

I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.

Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.

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

I want to show audiences I can act.

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

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.

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

I want to build up my philosophy... my philosophy with kung fu is to respect people.

I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.

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.

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.

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

I do small things. I try to do good things every day.

When I'm making an American film, it's more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, 'What are you doing!? Tell me first!' There are so many restrictions.

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.

I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.

Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

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

In the real world, children love me.

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

I only want my work to make people happy.

I give the children education.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I'm crazy, but I'm not too crazy.

Coffee is a language in itself

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.

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.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.

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

As one tale ends so another begins.

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

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

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

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

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

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

In every movie I do have a dialogue.

I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.

I've got a very interesting background.

I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.

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.

The movie business is a big gamble.

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

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

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

I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.

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

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

Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Of course I get hurt.

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

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

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.

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

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

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.

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

Money for me today does not really matter.

One day, I want to make a PG film.

Coffee is a language in itself.

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.

American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.

I know I have a responsibility to the fans.

Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be 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.

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.

I want to be in 'Avatar'. I want somebody to hire me to be Superman, a Chinese Superman or Spider-Man.