Jackie Chan Quotes

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.

May we all co-operate and join this war on pirates.

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.

Coffee is a language in itself.

I am the Olympic Ambassador. I always promote Olympics. I just want to say, Olympics is Olympics. [You] cannot mix with politics. Olympics for me is love, peace, [being] united.

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

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

Even during the promotion I told people that I didn’t like Rush Hour. The jokes I didn’t understand and the fighting, compared to my Hong Kong films was terrible. A lot of people didn’t like it. But mostly people did like it, they really liked it. Rush Hour really brought me to the American family audience.

I’m very pessimistic about that, no matter how hard we may try. The Chinese market is huge, but out of last year’s $2 billion box office, $1.8 billion was taken in by foreign movies, and just $200 million by our own movies, no matter how much we have learned of their techniques, or their good practices. The Hollywood movies imported into China are all good movies; does the U.S. make lousy movies? Yes, too many lousy movies, but the imports are good films, so how can they not be box office hits? They’re all hits.

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.

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.