18 Quotes by Jackie Chan
- Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
- 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.
- A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.
- I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.
- Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
- Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
- I'm crazy, but I'm not too crazy.
- 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?'.
- Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.
- Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
- 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.
- When the winds of change blow, some people build walls while others build windmills.
- Persistence is the key to success - You might endure some thunderstorms along the way, but the rainbow at the end make it all worth it.
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