Quotes from Jet Li

Failure is a fuel for excuses.

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

Even when I use a word in the wrong order in a sentence, I get mad. It's very stressful.

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

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.

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 think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.

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.

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

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.

The audience makes the decision of what kind of actor they want to watch. I always have said in the last 20 years, the real boss is the audience.

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.

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.

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

When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.

In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.

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

I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.

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

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.