Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
Family is not about whose blood is in you, it’s about who you love and who loves you.
Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
The best fights are the ones we avoid.
If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?
Don’t try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‘Jackie, are you scared?’ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.
The children right now, the young children, everybody should go to a martial arts school. Why? Because as soon as they go to a martial arts school, they learn discipline.
Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
We have to do what we can to help wherever and whenever it is possible for us to help.
I am really, really tired.
Kung fu lives in everything we do. It lives in how we put on a jacket and how we take off a jacket. It lives in how we treat people. Everything is kung fu.
Bruce Lee brought the martial arts movie to the attention of the world – and without him, I don’t think that anyone would have ever heard of Jackie Chan.
Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
I’m crazy, but I’m not stupid.
Being still and doing nothing are two completely different things.
Every time I make an American film I just trust the American director and American writer. Myself, I would never make this kind of film. For me, those kinds of films are ridiculous. They don’t make sense.
When I’m in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself ‘why?’
When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.
My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That’s the Jackie Chan diary.