Jackie Chan Fighting Quotations

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.

I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.

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

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.

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.

The best fights are the ones we avoid.

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

Even during the promotion I told people that I didn't like Rush Hour. The jokes I didn't understand and the fighting, compared to my Hong Kong films was terrible. A lot of people didn't like it. But mostly people did like it, they really liked it. Rush Hour really brought me to the American family audience.

I thought I should forget Hollywood and go back to Hong Kong. I'm so lucky that finally Hollywood accepts my comedy fighting.

I hope next time when we meet, we won't be fighting each other. Instead we will be drinking tea together.

American movies show you how to fight and break armsand necks. I want to make the action in my movies like dancing.