#l a

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. ↗

— Jet Li

#arts #championship #china #coach #first

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. ↗

— Jet Li

#arts #audience #because #comedy #different

I didn't go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts. ↗

— Jet Li

#children #go #i #martial #martial arts

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

— Jet Li

#been #i #learning #martial #martial arts

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. ↗

— Jet Li

#arts #both #chan #chinese #comedy

Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy. ↗

— Jet Li

#action films #arts #back #bad #bad guy

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. ↗

— Jet Li

#arts #chinese #chinese culture #chinese people #culture

And it is very moving because one has to see the site not as just another site of development but it is a very special site. It is a site that souls and hearts of all Americans. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#another #because #development #hearts #just

To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#american #any #aware #belong #breakthrough

I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same. ↗

— Terence Stamp

#been #chi #doing #fundamentals #i