li Quotes

“My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.”

“In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away.”

“I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.”

“I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.”

“Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope.”

“Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.”

“I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.”

“Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how to do and Jet Li does a martial art that Jackie Chan doesn't know how to do. You can both go to two Chinese restaurants, but both can have different kinds of food.”

“Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.”

“I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.”