- Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie.... Study computers instead.
- 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.
- My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films. The firefighter is the only one I have yet to put in a film. I have dragged this idea on for so many years, even if I want to make it, now I feel that my age makes me unsuitable. If I do make this film, I would no longer play a firefighter, and would more likely be a firefighting captain. But if I were to be honest with you, the role I want to play most is the firefighter.
- I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?
- In Hollywood, they care more about comedy, relationship and so many things before action stunts. In Hong Kong, we go straight into stunts and action, but in America sometimes that's too much. So, now I'm making a film half and half - take some good things from Hollywood and some good things from Asia.
- I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now. If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic. Taiwan is also chaotic. 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.
- [on making his last action movie, 2012] 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.
- I have reasons to do each film, I have something to say. Unlike Rush Hour (1998) there was no reason [in making it], you just give me the money and I'm fine. I dislike "Rush Hour" the most, but ironically it sold really well in the U.S. and Europe.
- [in June, 2013 in New Delhi, India for the inaugural Chinese Film Festival] I used to enjoy action; now I enjoy acting.
- [in June, 2013 in New Delhi, India for the inaugural Chinese Film Festival] Action stars have a shelf life. Actors go on till 70 or 80. I want people to say Jackie is a good actor who can also do action. I want to be the Robert De Niro of Asia.
- When I was younger I thought shark fin soup was good for the skin, for collagen. I thought tiger bone oil was good for when you get hurt. These kinds of things are always in your mind - traditional things. You eat pigs brain and you get clever. When you eat pig knuckles you feel good.
- I was making a film in China. The government buy me a dinner. I sit down. Boom! - they give me shark fin soup. I said put it away. I said can I have some other soup, I just don't like shark fin soup...Sometimes when government do things, the people just don't concentrate. But if you use celebrity, they will believe it. We need more celebrities to speak out about this.
- [on Donald Trump's presidency] Just give him a chance to try to change America and change the world. He's a businessman... I think he knows how to handle these types of things
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