Quotes By Jet Li

Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope.

Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s.

I do some of my stunts for the things I have learned. But if it is for something I have never learned, then I use a double.

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 meditate.

This film "Hero" talks about the peace of Chinese people.

I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.

I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.

You can beat me up, but don't touch my hair, I will kill you!

And lot of Asian audiences and reporters don't like me to act as a bad guy. But I think I want to become an actor, I want to try different way.

I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.

Hero shows you how to solve the problem - yourself.

Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy.

You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" to talk about love.

I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.

I didn't go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.

Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how to do and Jet Li does a martial art that Jackie Chan doesn't know how to do. You can both go to two Chinese restaurants, but both can have different kinds of food.

Zhang Yimou is one of the best directors on mainland China.

I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.

Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won't make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years.

I think "Hero" is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula.

I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.

When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.

In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away.

Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.

A weapon isn't good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.

I can feel very brave through all the action scenes in front of the people who are on the set, but when a girl comes close to me my face turns red because I'm so shy.

I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.