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Jackie Chan [1954-0] Chinese

Rank: 101
Actor, Martial Artist

Chan Kong-sang, SBS, MBE, PMW, known professionally as Jackie Chan, is a Hong Kong martial artist, actor, film director, producer, stuntman and singer.

Movies, Car, Computers, Education, Family, Freedom, Learning, Peace, Politics, Respect, Society, Sports, Technology, Trust

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Coffee is a language in itself.		101
I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.	Family	102
We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.		103
Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.		104
In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.		105
I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.	Freedom	106
Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.		107
My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.		108
A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.		109
I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.		110
Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.	Technology	111
I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.		112
American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.	Car	113
Of course I get hurt.		114
Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.		115
Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.		116
In the real world, children love me.		117
I've got a very interesting background.		118
My affection for Taiwan... is witnessed by everyone. My wife is Taiwanese and I am a son-in-law of Taiwan. I am half Taiwanese.		119
If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic.		120
I only want my work to make people happy.		121
I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.		122
Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.		123
My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.		124
I want to be in 'Avatar'. I want somebody to hire me to be Superman, a Chinese Superman or Spider-Man.		125
Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.	Society	126
For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.	Movies	201
Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.		202
After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.		203
The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.		204
I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.		205
The ads all call me fearless, but that's just publicity. Anyone who thinks I'm not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.		206
I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people say, 'Ah yes, they good.' Maybe one day, they remember Jackie Chan that way.		207
I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.		208
I know I have a responsibility to the fans.		209
When I'm making an American film, it's more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, 'What are you doing!? Tell me first!' There are so many restrictions.		210
I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's not like an action star.		211
I give the children education.	Education	212
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.		213
Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.	Trust	214
More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.		215
Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.		216
Money for me today does not really matter.		217
I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.		218
I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.		219
If there really is a god, then he really looks after me.		220
The movie business is a big gamble.		221
I like to give back.		222
Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.		223
Olympics for me is love, peace, united.	Peace	224
I know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.		225
When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.	Movies	226
I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.		301
I'm not a god - I do bad things.		302
I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.		303
I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.		304
Most of the time, I'm not even working; I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.		305
I loved cowboy movies when I was a kid. When I was five years old, I was already wearing a cowboy hat and suit. When I grew up, I knew John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Kirk Douglas and so on.	Movies	306
It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.		307
I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.		308
Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.		309
When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.		310
I do small things. I try to do good things every day.		311
As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, 'I don't want to become like Bruce Lee's son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.' I just think my son is too lazy.		312
Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.		313
Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.	Computers	314
Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.		315
I'm crazy, but I'm not too crazy.		316
I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.	Movies	317
I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.		318
I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.		319
Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.		320
The world is too violent right now.		321
Actor's life is very long.		322
I want to show audiences I can act.		323
I've choreographed all of my movies.	Movies	324
I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.		325
One day, I want to make a PG film.		326
I really like children to watch my movies.	Movies	401
Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.		402
Jackie Chan is a myth.		403
The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.		404
I'm afraid to fail again.		405
I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.		406
When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'		407
I love to clean.		408
You cannot mix sports with politics.	Politics, Sports	409
I play a nobody in Japan.		410
I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.		411
When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.		412
When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.	Learning, Respect	413
My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.		414
I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star - I am an actor, too.		415
When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.		416
If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.		417
Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.		418
I just make good movies. That's the way I thank my fans.	Movies	419
I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.		420
I hate interviews - but you have to do them.		421
I have a metal plate in my head, and can pop my shoulder and pop it back.		422
When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!'		423
In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.		424
In every movie I do have a dialogue.		425

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