Jet Li
One cannot choose how one's life begins but one can choose to face the end with courageCollection: Faces
If you are always allowed to stop training whenever you feel discomfort, you will find it too easy to give yourself permission to quit.Collection: Giving
Everything too fast is not good but everything too slow is also not good. You need balance. That's why I like martial arts: it always tells you how to control your body, your mind, your heart. Balance. Balance can keep the world's peace. I think that's a very good thing.Collection: Art
Failure is a fuel for excuses.Collection: Fuel
Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and still meditateCollection: Motivational
In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.Collection: Art
But recently I've, the past few years, I'm more focused on meditation. It's not a physical part. It's more mental part, to understand life.Collection: Past
I wish heroes didn't exist. Whenever we need a hero, it's because there's a problem that needs to be solved; it's because two groups of people, or two countries, are hurting one another, so a hero is needed to save us. If everyone were at peace, if everyone were happy, why would we need heroes? The world is better off without heroes.Collection: Country
Martial arts have two parts. One is external, other internal. The external is physical part. The internal is philosophy of how to be, what kind of person learns martial arts.Collection: Art
A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.Collection: Courage
You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.Collection: Perfect
There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.Collection: Broken
In my mind, martial arts movies are martial arts movies and action is action. It's quite different, because martial arts doesn't just have physical form; you have a philosophy, internal and external. A lot of it involves your life. How you see the world. An action film I think is just about the movement. I think it's different.Collection: Art
I think all actors want to change. When you do something many times, over and over, you want to do something fresh. But movie is still my business. A lot of action actors want change, but no studio wants to spend money on something that is not guaranteed; not proven. I think it is very difficult. It is hard to change.Collection: Thinking
Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.Collection: Buddhism
I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life - the relationship between parent and child.Collection: Children
In acting you do a lot of research. Audience watch Jet Li because of the fight. They watch other actors because they are funny. If they want funny, they don't want to see Jet Li, they watch the other guy. That's the reality I face, until the one day I can prove I can make film without action that is a fun movie. Then everybody will say Jet Li, hmmm.Collection: Fun
The audience makes the decision of what kind of actor they want to watch. I always have said in the last 20 years, the real boss is the audience.Collection: Real
When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.Collection: Brother