I think as a celebrity, we have to teach the young generation how to speak with the old generation.
I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.
I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.
Making a Hollywood film you don’t have a very big movie because they have a Safety Captain and insurance people on the set. They have to check first. ‘Don’t do it. Let me check. Make sure everything is safe.’
You don’t need a reason to be nice to someone.
Money for me today does not really matter.
American movies show you how to fight and break armsand necks. I want to make the action in my movies like dancing.
In America there’s no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.
When I try to speak perfectly then I am not Jackie Chan anymore. Some words sound like I am trying too hard. The whole thing is not me.
When I am making a film, I know what to do in front of a camera. What frightens me are the scenes with dialogue. Sometime they really want me to speak perfectly and I don’t like that.
When I go out, people look at me with a puzzled expression on their faces thinking, “You’re Jackie Chan?” When people stare at me, it makes me uncomfortable. More and more I find that I just stay in my hotel when I am working.
I really like to be by myself and if I do go out to look around, I dress in jeans. My secretary is constantly telling me to dress up, shave and look your best because people know you. That bothers me. I just want to be natural.
Sometimes you think the movie is good and BOOM! Sometimes you think it’s no good. BAAM! The movie business is a big gamble. You never know.
Sometimes I’d like to play the bad guy and sometimes I’d like to die in a movie.
I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.
One thing I did pick up from Cannonball Run was the use of bloopers and outtakes under the final credits, which I’ve done in all my movies since.
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 know that eventually, I’ll have to change my life and my career, but I’ve got a lot of good years left in me yet.