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
Breathing hurts. ... It hurts to draw my fist. It's been hard filming fight scenes these past two days.
Martial arts is not for hurting people, it's for protecting people.
Of course I get hurt.
It only hurts when I'm not laughing.
Officials of governments that use or produce landmines should be forced to see the reality of how landmines hurt people and make them suffer, because this would surely make them stop.
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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.
We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
There was a lot of criticism on the Internet saying that the Oscar results were unfair.
I've let my family down, but I'm very lucky. My wife has forgiven me. ... She's supported me all these years, she will do so now.
Today when our actors go to the U.S., what movies can they make? Can they appear in 'Titanic'? Could they do 'Kramer vs. Kramer'? No. No actor could do it,
Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.
For example: a child wanted to eat something and the parents refused, and as the child began to act up and pretended to cry because there were no tears his parents immediately surrendered and offered the little master food with two hands.
It may be funny to watch our skit. But there's nothing funny about counterfeits.