Jackie Chan Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• 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

  Art, Thinking, Attention

• We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.

  Jackie Chan

  Art, Hurt, Fighting

• 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

  Art, Children, School

• When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

  Jackie Chan

  Art, Martial Arts

  Twitter post from May 31, 2013

• 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

  Art, People, Kung Fu

• Martial arts is for defense. It's not for attacking. So when people are fighting, always, always, defend.

  Jackie Chan

  Art, Fighting, People

  Twitter post from Oct 11, 2011

• When I was a young stunt guy the director would say: "You're useless..." But I wanted to be the best, I wanted to be a super stunt guy. That's how I built myself, because of martial arts and everything.

  Jackie Chan

  Art, Guy, Directors

  "The Karate Kid - Jackie Chan interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• 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

  Country, Art, Children

  "The Karate Kid - Jackie Chan interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• 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

  Art, Father, Son

• Back in the Bruce Lee era, and in my era, Kung-Fu stirred up a kind of frenzy, and many people were learning martial arts from us. But about a decade ago, Hollywood began bringing in a number of our action choreographers, including two from my own stunt crew, where they became martial arts directors. Now, a decade later, Hollywood has learned it all, so when you look at the action films they're making now, they all use our action, our martial arts, and then add to that their own technology which is ten times better than ours, and it has to leave us dumbfounded: how did they film that?

  Jackie Chan

  Art, Technology, Two

• Martial arts is not for hurting people, it's for protecting people.

  Jackie Chan

  Art, Hurt, People

  Twitter post from May 29, 2012

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