Martial Arts Quotes - Page 24

• I've danced my whole life. Martial arts is just fun for me, it's all choreographed a bit like dance. I have done Muay Thai and Wushu, which is cool because it's very fluid dance. I also do Tricking. It's kind of like Taekwondo with the big kicks and flips and showier aspects of martial arts.

  Caity Lotz

  Art, Fun, Done

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In high school, during lunchtime I would go in the room where the wrestling mats were and try different flips and different moves. Like windmills. I just started mixing martial arts with jazz and contemporary stuff and it would get mashed together and became my style.

  Caity Lotz

  Art, Moving, School

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've always been huge into martial arts.

  Michael Steger

  Art, Huge

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• I started doing martial arts when I was about 7, and I got my second degree black belt when I was 19. So I have my second degree black belt, but I've never used it and I had to stop when I got "Instant Star" because I couldn't train.

  Laura Vandervoort

  Art, Stars, Black

  "Q&A: Spider-Man's Latest Mary Jane, Laura Vandervoort, Talks!". Interview with Breanne L. Heldman, www.mtv.com. October 6, 2011.

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• I enjoy doing martial arts films, but I like the straight stuff, too. I'd like to go back and do some Shakespeare, and maybe knock out a play or two. It's all about keeping balance.

  Thomas Ian Griffith

  Art, Play, Two

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Martial arts have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember.

  Brandon Lee

  Art, Long, Remember

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• My father was a big Bruce Lee fan. He's Chinese-Hawaiian, and my mother is Chinese. He used to take us to all these really fantastical films with martial arts in them. And Bruce Lee was amazing.

  Jason Scott

  Mother, Art, Father

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• I learnt a blend of different martial arts - not in great depth, obviously - but various moves such as kicks, blocks and punches. It was all quite fun.

  Christian Cooke

  Art, Fun, Block

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• Every Halloween for six years, I was a Ninja Turtle, and Mikey was my favorite. The turtles really made me who I am today. They got me into martial arts, meditation, surfing, skateboarding; big time influence on who I am today.

  Greg Cipes

  Art, Halloween, Turtles

  "Interview with Greg Cipes, TV's Michelangelo". Interview with David Burszan, www.denofgeek.com. November 4, 2013.

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• In my martial arts days. I was taught a lot of discipline that probably rolls over into other parts of my life. You're not supposed to attack back until you're attacked. You never take your skills and abuse them. I knew I could be lethal to someone my size.

  Taryn Manning

  Art, Skills, Discipline

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I grew up doing martial arts, and I love martial arts movies and fight scenes. I'm pretty athletic, so I enjoy doing that stuff.

  Aaron Yoo

  Art, Fighting, Athletic

  Source: collider.com

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• I think a lot of people don't realize that martial arts are just an expression like anything else. It's just that most people are not trained to punch or kick, but you can walk or run or dance, which is also part of expression.

  Donnie Yen

  Running, Art, Thinking

  "IGN Interviews Donnie Yen". Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. August 26, 2004.

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• A lot of people don't realize, when you are acting in a martial arts film, you're not just performing martial arts. You're not just performing martial arts. You're actually acting as much as any other actor.

  Donnie Yen

  Art, People, Acting

  "Interview with Action Film Star Donnie Yen". "Talk Asia", www.cnn.com. October 19, 2011.

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• The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

  Bruce Lee

  Skills, Mastery, Emptiness

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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• Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.

  Bruce Lee

  Truth, Giving, Choices

  "Tao of Jeet Kune Do". Book by Bruce Lee, 1975.

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• Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Expression, Athletic

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• All martial art is simply an honest expression of one's body — with a lot of deception in between.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Expression, Deception

  "Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way".

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• A quality martial artist is always ready for any move, and trains oneself invincible.

  Bruce Lee

  Moving, Artist, Quality

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.22, Tuttle Publishing

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• To be bound by traditional martial art style or styles is the way of the mindless, enslaved martial artist. But to be inspired by the traditional martial art and to achieve further heights is the way of genius.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Style, Genius

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.61, Tuttle Publishing

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• Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain

  Bruce Lee

  Pain, Fighting, Pride

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.192, Tuttle Publishing

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• The core of understanding lies in the individual mind, and until that is touched everything is uncertain and superficial. Truth cannot be perceived until we come to fully understand our potential and ourselves. After all, knowledge in the martial arts ultimately means self-knowledge.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Lying, Mean

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• Unfortunately, now in boxing people are only allowed to punch. In Judo, people are only allowed to throw. I do not despise these kinds of martial arts. What I mean is, we now find rigid forms which create differences among clans, and the world of martial art is shattered as a result.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Mean, Differences

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.21, Tuttle Publishing

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• When you feel pain, you know that you are still alive.

  Bruce Lee

  Pain, Alive, Feels

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• I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Flower, Roots

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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• Martial arts just normally would not draw me to the box office.

  Mary Hart

  Art, Office, Boxes

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