Quotes from Jet Li

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.

My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.

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

When I was 8 years old, I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school.

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

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

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

Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy.

There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.

But recently I've, the past few years, I'm more focused on meditation. It's not a physical part. It's more mental part, to understand life.

Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It's their culture.

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

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

Working on a film, the setup for an action sequence takes a long time, and we need to shoot the scene many times to get different angles.

I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.

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