“I’m crazy, but I’m not stupid.”
― Jackie Chan
“If you’re too free, you’re like the way Hong Kong is now. It’s very chaotic.”
― Jackie Chan
“Coffee is a language in itself.”
― Jackie Chan
“Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.”
― 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.”
― Jackie Chan
“Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.”
― Jackie Chan
“Most of the time, I’m not even working; I’m just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.”
― Jackie Chan
“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.”
― Jackie Chan
“Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.”
― Jackie Chan
“Don’t try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.”
― Jackie Chan
“My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.”
― Jackie Chan
“I do small things. I try to do good things every day.”
― Jackie Chan
“Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.”
― Jackie Chan
“We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.”
― Jackie Chan
“Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.”
― Jackie Chan
“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?’.”
― Jackie Chan
“The world is too violent right now.”
― Jackie Chan
“Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.”
― Jackie Chan
“I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.”
― Jackie Chan
“When I make a film – I direct my own film, I write my own script – that’s what I want to hear from the audience. ‘Oh, thank you, Jackie!’”
― Jackie Chan
“Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.”
― Jackie Chan
“A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‘Jackie, are you scared?’ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.”
― Jackie Chan
“I hate violence, yes I do. It’s kind of a dilemma, huh?.”
― Jackie Chan
“Sometimes I’d like to play the bad guy and sometimes I’d like to die in a movie.”
― Jackie Chan
“Of course I get hurt.”
― Jackie Chan
“Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.”
― Jackie Chan
“Money for me today does not really matter.”
― Jackie Chan
“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.”
― Jackie Chan
“You cannot mix sports with politics.”
― Jackie Chan
“Olympics for me is love, peace, united.”
― Jackie Chan
“I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.”
― Jackie Chan
“If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.”
― 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.”
― Jackie Chan
“I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.”
― Jackie Chan
“If there really is a god, then he really looks after me.”
― Jackie Chan
“I want to be in ‘Avatar’. I want somebody to hire me to be Superman, a Chinese Superman or Spider-Man.”
― 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.”
― Jackie Chan
“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.”
― Jackie Chan
“I’m crazy, but I’m not too crazy.”
― Jackie Chan
“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.”
― Jackie Chan
“I’m tired of fighting. I’ve always known that I can’t be an action star all my life.”
― Jackie Chan
“I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.”
― Jackie Chan
“Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.”
― Jackie Chan
“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.”
― Jackie Chan
“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.”
― Jackie Chan
“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.”
― Jackie Chan
“I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.”
― Jackie Chan
“Actor’s life is very long.”
― Jackie Chan
“I want to show audiences I can act.”
― Jackie Chan
“I know I have a responsibility to the fans.”
― Jackie Chan
“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.”
― Jackie Chan
“In America there’s no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.”
― Jackie Chan
“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.”
― Jackie Chan
“Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.”
― Jackie Chan
“I’ve choreographed all of my movies.”
― Jackie Chan
“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.”
― Jackie Chan
“I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.”
― Jackie Chan
“One day, I want to make a PG film.”
― Jackie Chan
“I really like children to watch my movies.”
― Jackie Chan
“I give the children education.”
― Jackie Chan
“In every movie I do have a dialogue.”
― Jackie Chan
“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.”
― Jackie Chan
“Sometimes, I’m very embarrassed.”
― Jackie Chan
“Jackie Chan is a myth.”
― Jackie Chan
“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.”
― Jackie Chan
“I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.”
― Jackie Chan
“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.”
― Jackie Chan
“The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.”
― Jackie Chan
“In the real world, children love me.”
― Jackie Chan
“I’ve got a very interesting background.”
― Jackie Chan
“I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.”
― Jackie Chan
“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.”
― Jackie Chan
“I’m afraid to fail again.”
― Jackie Chan
“The movie business is a big gamble.”
― Jackie Chan
“I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.”
― Jackie Chan
“When I’m in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself ‘why?’”
― Jackie Chan
“I hate interviews – but you have to do them.”
― Jackie Chan
“I only want my work to make people happy.”
― Jackie Chan
“I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.”
― Jackie Chan
“I love to clean.”
― Jackie Chan
“I like to give back.”
― Jackie Chan
“I have a metal plate in my head, and can pop my shoulder and pop it back.”
― Jackie Chan
“My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.”
― Jackie Chan
“Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.”
― Jackie Chan
“I know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.”
― Jackie Chan
“I play a nobody in Japan.”
― Jackie Chan
“When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.”
― Jackie Chan
“I’ve seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.”
― Jackie Chan
“My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That’s the Jackie Chan diary.”
― Jackie Chan
“I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.”
― Jackie Chan
“When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.”
― Jackie Chan
“I’m not a god – I do bad things.”
― Jackie Chan
“When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.”
― Jackie Chan
“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.”
― Jackie Chan
“Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.”
― Jackie Chan
“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.”
― Jackie Chan
“I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star – I am an actor, too.”
― Jackie Chan
“I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.”
― Jackie Chan
“When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.”
― Jackie Chan
“When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.”
― Jackie Chan
“Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.”
― 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.”
― Jackie Chan
“I just make good movies. That’s the way I thank my fans.”
― Jackie Chan
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