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

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?'.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Coffee is a language in itself.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I give the children education.

I know I have a responsibility to the fans.

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

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 like to give back.

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.

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

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.

I only want my work to make people happy.

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

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 want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.

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

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