Jet Li
Jet Li
Li Lianjie, better known by his stage name Jet Li, is a Chinese film actor, film producer, martial artist, and retired Wushu champion who was born in Beijing. He is a naturalized Singaporean citizen...
NationalityChinese
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth26 April 1963
CityBeijing, China
CountryChina
long different needs
Working on a film, the setup for an action sequence takes a long time, and we need to shoot the scene many times to get different angles.
artist two waiting
Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.
buddhism past years
I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
art thinking keys
I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.
perfect superhero needs
You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
art moving chinese
Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
broken actors pieces
There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.
art school years
I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.
hero problem solve
Hero shows you how to solve the problem - yourself.
art stars two
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.
levels next enlightening
I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.
sports art children
I didn't go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.
fun fighting reality
In acting you do a lot of research. Audience watch Jet Li because of the fight. They watch other actors because they are funny. If they want funny, they don't want to see Jet Li, they watch the other guy. That's the reality I face, until the one day I can prove I can make film without action that is a fun movie. Then everybody will say Jet Li, hmmm.
short-love powerful love-is
Love is more powerful than kicking ass.