254 Quotes by Jackie Chan

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.

I’m good for some things, bad for a lot of things.

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.

When I am making a film, I know what to do in front of a camera. What frightens me are the scenes with dialogue. Sometime they really want me to speak perfectly and I don’t like that.

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.

After all those years in Asia, I don’t have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and – Boom! – people go.

If I need to buy a TV, I’ll definitely buy a Japanese TV. A Chinese TV might explode.

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.

When I came to Hollywood, I spoke no English – except nobody bullied me. Every day, I had nothing to do except training in English, to keep talking.