Jackie Chan Quotes
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- A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‘Jackie, are you scared?’ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.
- 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.
- 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.
- Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
- Don’t try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
- 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.
- 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.
- I’m crazy, but I’m not too crazy.
- Sometimes I’d like to play the bad guy and sometimes I’d like to die in a movie.
- 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.
- It’s very important that I get hurt [when making a movie]
- I’m crazy, but I’m not stupid.
- I don’t want to be an action star, action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
- I have a few rules that I tell my manager: No sex scenes. No make love. The kids who like me don’t need to see it. It would gross them out.
- I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
- 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.
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