Jackie Chan
Jackie Chan
Chan Kong-sang, SBS, MBE, PMW,, known professionally as Jackie Chan, is a Hong Kong martial artist, actor, film director, producer, stuntman, and singer. In his movies, he is known for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, use of improvised weapons, and innovative stunts, which he typically performs himself. Chan has been training in Kung fu and Wing Chun. He has been acting since the 1960s and has appeared in over 150 films...
NationalityChinese
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth7 April 1954
CityHong Kong, China
CountryChina
I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.
Most of the time I'm not even working, I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky. If there really is a god, then he really looks after me. All these years he's taken care of me, my career keeps getting better and better. Whatever I want just seems to come. And it keeps coming. So I promised myself that I have to pay for this, payback society. So this is why I started my Jackie Chan Foundation to help children and sick kids and people in hospitals.
My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.
I think every young child can learn through any martial art. They would then learn to respect their life, respect their parents, respect their country, and respect the whole world.
American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.
When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.
When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.
We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'
My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.
Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.
Being still and doing nothing are two completely different things
I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.