People would come to me and say, ‘Jet, your Kung Fu is pretty good, do you want to be an action star when you grow up?’ At 17, I was given the script and I went to make the movie. — Jet Li

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

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. — Jet Li

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. — Jet Li

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. — Jet Li

Love is more powerful than kicking ass. — Jet Li

I think ‘Hero’ is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula. — Jet Li

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

I’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old. — Jet Li

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. — Jet Li

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

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

You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ to talk about love. — Jet Li

I didn’t go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts. — Jet Li

Martial arts have two parts. One is external, other internal. The external is physical part. The internal is philosophy of how to be, what kind of person learns martial arts. — Jet Li

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. — Jet Li

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. — Jet Li

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. — Jet Li

Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life. — Jet Li

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. — Jet Li

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

I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life–the relationship between parent and child. — Jet Li

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

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

Watching movies in the U.S. is great fun because they get every joke, they smile, they laugh so much; it’s a great feeling. — Jet Li

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

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. — Jet Li