Unlock the profound wisdom of legendary martial artist and actor, Jackie Chan, with our curated collection of his top 100 quotes. Discover the inspiring insights and life lessons from this iconic figure as he shares his thoughts on success, perseverance, and personal growth. Dive into the world of Jackie Chan’s words and empower yourself with his timeless wisdom. Let his words motivate and guide you on your own journey towards greatness.
Jackie Chan Quotes
1- “I just make good movies. That’s the way I thank my fans.” – Jackie Chan
2- “You don’t get to do over parts or go back and change your path. Your life is decided by your character and the decisions you make in the moment.” – Jackie Chan
3- “Bruce Lee brought the martial arts movie to the attention of the world – and without him, I don’t think that anyone would have ever heard of Jackie Chan.” – Jackie Chan
4- “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
5- “Bruce Lee brought the martial arts movie to the attention of the world – and without him, I don’t think that anyone would have ever heard of Jackie Chan.” – Jackie Chan
6- “I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.” – Jackie Chan
7- “Pain is my daily routine. As long as I don’t go to the hospital, it’s nothing for me.” – Jackie Chan
8- “Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.” – Jackie Chan
9- “I think every young child can learn through any martial art. They would then learn to respect their life, respect their parents, respect their country, and respect the whole world.” – Jackie Chan
10- “I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.” – Jackie Chan
11- “When I was young I trained a lot. I trained my mind, I trained my eyes, trained my thinking, how to help people. And it trained me how to deal with pressure.” – Jackie Chan
12- “Acting keeps me young! I love that the fans like this kind of action and as long as they want me I’ll continue to do it.” – Jackie Chan
13- “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
14- “In America there’s no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.” – Jackie Chan
15- “My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.” – Jackie Chan
16- “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
17- “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
18- “I want to make people laugh and I want to try to encourage world peace.” – Jackie Chan
20- “Coffee is a language in itself.” – Jackie Chan
21- “I thought I should forget Hollywood and go back to Hong Kong. I’m so lucky that finally Hollywood accepts my comedy fighting.” – Jackie Chan
22- “Most of the time, I’m not even working; I’m just helping people because I feel that I am too lucky.” – Jackie Chan
23- “The movie business is a big gamble.” – Jackie Chan
24- “When I’m making an American film, it’s safer because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, ‘What are you doing!? Tell me first!’ There are so many restrictions.” – Jackie Chan
25- “I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.” – Jackie Chan
26- “Family isn’t whose blood you carry. It’s who you love and who loves you.” – Jackie Chan
27- “I love animals. When I was young, I had two St. Bernards, I still have a dog, I have a lot of cats in my company. My wife always says, “You spend a lot of money on animals. More than even me!”” – Jackie Chan
28- “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.” – Jackie Chan
29- “When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.” – Jackie Chan
30- “Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.” – Jackie Chan
31- “We’re all the same inside.” – Jackie Chan
32- “The children right now, the young children, everybody should go to a martial arts school. Why? Because as soon as they go to a martial arts school, they learn discipline.” – Jackie Chan
33- “Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.” – Jackie Chan
34- “I loved cowboy movies when I was a kid. When I was five years old, I was already wearing a cowboy hat and suit. When I grew up, I knew John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Kirk Douglas, and so on.” – Jackie Chan
35- “I really like to be by myself and if I do go out to look around, I dress in jeans. My secretary is constantly telling me to dress up, shave and look your best because people know you. That bothers me. I just want to be natural.” – Jackie Chan
36- “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
37- “If you’re too free, you’re like the way Hong Kong is now. It’s very chaotic.” – Jackie Chan
38- “I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.” – Jackie Chan
39- “In every movie I do have a dialogue.” – Jackie Chan
40- “Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.”- Jackie Chan
41- “Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.” – Jackie Chan
42- “I’m tired of fighting. I’ve always known that I can’t be an action star all my life.” – Jackie Chan
43- “Martial arts is for defense. It’s not for attacking. So when people are fighting, always, always, defend.” – Jackie Chan
44- “My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That’s the Jackie Chan diary.” – Jackie Chan
45- “Some people call Police Story the greatest action film of all time, and while I have to be humble and say that I disagree, it’s definitely the favorite action film I’ve ever made.” – Jackie Chan
46- “I hate violence, yes I do. It’s kind of a dilemma, huh?” – Jackie Chan
47- “My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.” – Jackie Chan
48- “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.” – Jackie Chan
49- “Sometimes you think the movie is good and BOOM! Sometimes you think it’s no good. BAAM! The movie business is a big gamble. You never know.” – Jackie Chan
50- “If there really is a god, then he really looks after me.” – Jackie Chan
51- “Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.” – Jackie Chan
52- “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
53- “Actor’s life is very long.” – Jackie Chan
54- “I only want my work to make people happy.” – Jackie Chan
55- “When I go out, people look at me with a puzzled expression on their faces thinking, “You’re Jackie Chan?” When people stare at me, it makes me uncomfortable. More and more I find that I just stay in my hotel when I am working.” – Jackie Chan
56- “We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.” – Jackie Chan
57- “Money for me today does not really matter.” – Jackie Chan
58- “If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.” – Jackie Chan
59- “It only hurts when I’m not laughing.” – Jackie Chan
60- “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
61- “I know that eventually, I’ll have to change my life and my career, but I’ve got a lot of good years left in me yet.” – Jackie Chan
62- “I’m afraid to fail again.” – Jackie Chan
63- “When I work I do it from my heart. And my heart is that I bring love to the world. When I travel around the world I bring my love. I bring so much love in my heart. I hope you can feel that.” – Jackie Chan
64- “Sometimes I’d like to play the bad guy and sometimes I’d like to die in a movie.” – Jackie Chan
65- “I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.” – Jackie Chan
66- “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
67- “Don’t try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.” – Jackie Chan
68- “I hope next time when we meet, we won’t be fighting each other. Instead we will be drinking tea together.” – Jackie Chan
69- “Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.” – Jackie Chan
70- “You don’t need a reason to be nice to someone.” – Jackie Chan
71- “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
72- “When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.” – Jackie Chan
73- “Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.” – Jackie Chan
74- “No matter how much more I practice, my English will never be perfect. If it is really terrible, I’ll correct it, but otherwise, I do it my Jackie Chan way.” – Jackie Chan
75- “Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.” – Jackie Chan
76- “Of course I get hurt.” – Jackie Chan
77- “I’m crazy, but I’m not stupid.” – Jackie Chan
78- “Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?” – Jackie Chan
79- “Being still and doing nothing are two completely different things.” – Jackie Chan
80- “Olympics for me is love, peace, united.” – Jackie Chan
81- “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
82- “Jackie Chan is a myth.” – Jackie Chan
83- “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
84- “We have to do what we can to help wherever and whenever it is possible for us to help.” – Jackie Chan
85- “I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.” – Jackie Chan
86- “We live now in a global village and we are in one single family. It’s our responsibility to bring friendship and love from all different places around the world and to live together in peace.” – Jackie Chan
87- “Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person’s life.” – Jackie Chan
88- “Martial arts is not for hurting people, it’s for protecting people.” – Jackie Chan
89- “The best fights are the ones we avoid.” – Jackie Chan
90- “As one tale ends, so another begins.” – Jackie Chan
91- “Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.” – Jackie Chan
92- “Family is not who’s blood is in you, is who you love and who loves you.” – Jackie Chan
93- “I’m good for some things, bad for a lot of things.” – Jackie Chan
94- “I am really, really tired.” – Jackie Chan
95- “When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.” – Jackie Chan
96- “Nothing makes me more determined to succeed than someone telling me something’s impossible.” – Jackie Chan
97- “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
98- “Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.” – Jackie Chan
99- “Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.” – Jackie Chan
100- “I do small things. I try to do good things every day.” – Jackie Chan
