"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."

Life, Action, Want

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"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."

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"Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances."

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"Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie."

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"In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'."

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"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."

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"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."

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"Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead."

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"Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality."

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"I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life."

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"American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt."

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"I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer."

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"A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares."

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"Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society."

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"Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!"

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"Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself."

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"No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right."

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"It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn."

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"Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others."

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"Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity."

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