Quotes from Jackie Chan

Money for me today does not really matter.

Family is not who's blood is in you, is who you love and who loves you

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.

We live now in a global village and we are in one single family. It's our responsibility to bring friendship and love from all different places around the world and to live together in peace.

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.

I hope next time when we meet, we won't be fighting each other. Instead we will be drinking tea together.

Of course I get hurt.

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

I know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.

I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.

I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.

In the real world, children love me.

I hate interviews - but you have to do them.

Coffee is a language in itself.

I play a nobody in Japan.

I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic.

The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.