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.
It only hurts when I’m not laughing.
Martial arts are not for hurting people, they’re for protecting people.
I hope next time when we meet, we won’t be fighting each other. Instead we will be drinking tea together.
The authorities should stipulate what issues people can protest over and on what issues it is not allowed.