Coffee is a language in itself.
— Jackie Chan
Money for me today does not really matter.
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.
Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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 really like children to watch my movies.
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.
Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.
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 want to show audiences I can act.
The world is too violent right now.
Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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.
Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.
Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.
In the real world, children love me.
I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.
Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.
In every movie I do have a dialogue.
One day, I want to make a PG film.
I've choreographed all of my movies.
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 know I have a responsibility to the fans.
Actor's life is very long.
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'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.
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 will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.
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 crazy, but I'm not too crazy.
Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
I've got a very interesting background.
The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.
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.
We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
I give the children education.
I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.
Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.
In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
Of course I get hurt.
I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.
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.
I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.
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.
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.
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.
