Best Motivational Jackie Chan Quotes on Life, Love, Success,Failure and Hollywood
Jackie Chan is one of the most successful action movie stars of all time. He has worked really hard to reach where he is today.
He is a master martial artist, film director, actor, producer, stuntman, and also a singer.
DOB: 7 April 1954 (age 64 years), Birth Place – Victoria Peak, Hong Kong
Height: 1.74 m
Spouse: Joan Lin (m. 1982)
Martial arts: Taekwondo, Hapkido, Chinese martial arts
Jackie Chan’s Net-Worth – 400 to 450 Million (2018)
Motivational Jackie Chan Quotes
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I’m afraid to fail again.” – Jackie Chan
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Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.” – Jackie Chan
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Don’t try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead” – Jackie Chan
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan” – Jackie Chan
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I prepare for the worst, but hope for the best.”- Jackie Chan
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I’m good for some things, bad for a lot of things.”- Jackie Chan
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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”- Jackie Chan
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I do small things. I try to do good things every day. If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.”
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The movie business is a big gamble.”- Jackie Chan
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I know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.”- Jackie Chan
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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”- Jackie Chan Quotes on life
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When I’m in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself ‘why?”
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Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.”- Jackie Chan
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If you’re too free, you’re like the way Hong Kong is now. It’s very chaotic.”- Jackie Chan
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I allowed myself to be bullied because I was scared and didn’t know how to defend myself. I was bullied until I prevented a new student from being bullied. By standing up for him, I learned to stand up for myself.”- Jackie Chan quotes on life and motivation
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I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film”- Jackie Chan
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Family is not who’s blood is in you, it’s who you love and who loves you”- Jackie Chan
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My affection for Taiwan… is witnessed by everyone. My wife is Taiwanese and I am a son-in-law of Taiwan. I am halfTaiwanese.”- Jackie Chan
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You cannot mix sports with politics.”- Jackie Chan
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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. don’t have my own chair. just sit on the set with everybody.”- Jackie Chan
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Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.”- Jackie Chan
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I like to give back”- Jackie Chan quotes on love and humanity
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Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person’s life.”- Jackie Chan quotes on love
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I have a metal plate in my head, and can pop my shoulder and pop it back.”- Jackie Chan
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Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.”- Jackie Chan
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The best fights are the ones we avoid.”- Jackie Chan
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.”- Jackie Chan
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If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?”- Jackie Chan
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My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.”- Jackie Chan
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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”- Jackie Chan
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Kung fu lives in everything we do. It lives in how we put on a jacket and how we take off a jacket. It lives in how we treat people. Everything is kung fu”- Jackie Chan quotes on martial arts and kung fu
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My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That’s the Jackie Chan diary”- Jackie Chan
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Being still and doing nothing are two completely different things”- Jackie Chan
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When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.”- Jackie Chan
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Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.”- Jackie Chan
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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”- Jackie Chan
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I only want my work to make people happy.”- Jackie Chan
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I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school”- Jackie Chan
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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.”- Jackie Chan
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I want to be in ‘Avatar’. I want somebody to hire me to be Superman, a Chinese Superman or Spider-Man.”- Jackie Chan
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I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama”- Jackie Chan
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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.”- Jackie Chan
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When I make a film – I direct my own film, I write my own script – that’s what I want to hear from the audience. ‘Oh, thank you, Jackie!’- Jackie Chan
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I’m good for some things, bad for a lot of things.”- Jackie Chan
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I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.”- Jackie Chan
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Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.”- Jackie Chan
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Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.”- Jackie Chan
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Most of the time, I’m not even working; I’m just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.”- Jackie Chan
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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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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.”- Jackie Chan
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I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star – I am an actor, too”
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I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.”- Jackie Chan
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Don’t try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.”- Jackie Chan
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Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want”- Jackie Chan
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If there really is a god, then he really looks after me”- Jackie Chan
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When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things”- Jackie Chan
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I have a metal plate in my head, and can pop my shoulder and pop it back.”- Jackie Chan
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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.”- Jackie Chan
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When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.”- Jackie Chan
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I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.”- Jackie Chan
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Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.”- Jackie Chan
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As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‘I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.’ I just think my son is too lazy”
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I just make good movies. That’s the way I thank my fans.”- Jackie Chan
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I’m tired of fighting. I’ve always known that I can’t be an action star all my life.”- Jackie Chan
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I’m not young anymore. I’m really, really tired. And the world is too violent right now. It’s a dilemma – I like action but I don’t like violence”- Jackie Chan
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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.”- Jackie Chan
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Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.”- Jackie Chan
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I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It’s not like an action star.”- Jackie Chan
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If there really is a god, then he really looks after me.”- Jackie Chan
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I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we’re not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want.”- Jackie Chan
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I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.”- Jackie Chan
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When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.”- Jackie Chan
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My affection for Taiwan… is witnessed by everyone. My wife is Taiwanese and I am a son-in-law of Taiwan. I am half Taiwanese.”- Jackie Chan
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I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.”- Jackie Chan
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Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.” – Jackie Chan
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Most of the time, I’m not even working; I’m just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.” – Jackie Chan
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Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.” – Jackie Chan
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I sometimes just don’t like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.” – Jackie Chan
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The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.” – Jackie Chan
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Money for me today does not really matter.” – Jackie Chan
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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.” – Jackie Chan
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I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games” – Jackie Chan
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Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.” – Jackie Chan
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Sometimes, I face embarrassment.” – Jackie Chan
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In every movie I do have a dialogue.” – Jackie Chan
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In America there’s no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.” – Jackie Chan
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Actor’s life is very long”- Jackie Chan
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I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It’s not like an action star.” – Jackie Chan
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I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.” –Jackie Chan
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I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we’re not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want.” – Jackie Chan
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I hate interviews – but you have to do them.” – Jackie Chan