 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. |
| I'm crazy, but I'm not too crazy. |
| I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan. |
| I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid. |
| Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again. |
| A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman. |
| 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. |
| The ads all call me fearless, but that's just publicity. Anyone who thinks I'm not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am. |
| For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies. |
| 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?'. |
| Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality. |
| 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. |
| I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?. |
| 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. |
| Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead. |
| Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie. |
| I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years. |
| I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life. |
| 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. |
| I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people say, 'Ah yes, they good.' Maybe one day, they remember Jackie Chan that way. |
