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 will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.
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 know that eventually, I'll have to change my life and my career, but I've got a lot of good years left in me yet.
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.
Fifteen years ago, I really give up American market,
I loved cowboy movies when I was a kid. When I was five years old, I was already wearing a cowboy hat and suit. When I grew up, I knew John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Kirk Douglas and so on.
There was a lot of criticism on the Internet saying that the Oscar results were unfair.
Breathing hurts. ... It hurts to draw my fist. It's been hard filming fight scenes these past two days.
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.
They waste two hours to check all the things