“A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.”

“As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, 'I don't want to become like Bruce Lee's son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.' I just think my son is too lazy.”

“Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.”

“Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.”

“Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.”

“Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.”

“Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.”

“Coffee is a language in itself.”

“Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.”

“Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.”

“Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.”

“Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.”

“For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.”

“I do small things. I try to do good things every day.”

“I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.”

“I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.”

“I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.”

“I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.”

“I give the children education.”

“I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.”

“I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people say, 'Ah yes, they good.' Maybe one day, they remember Jackie Chan that way.”

“I know I have a responsibility to the fans.”

“I know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.”

“I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's not like an action star.”

“I like to give back.”

“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.”

“I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.”

“I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.”

“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 only want my work to make people happy.”

“I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.”

“I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.”

“I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.”

“I want to be in 'Avatar'. I want somebody to hire me to be Superman, a Chinese Superman or Spider-Man.”

“I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.”

“I want to show audiences I can act.”

“I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.”

“If there really is a god, then he really looks after me.”

“If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic.”

“I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.”

“I'm crazy, but I'm not too crazy.”

“I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.”

“I'm not a god - I do bad things.”

“I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.”

“I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.”

“In every movie I do have a dialogue.”

“In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.”

“In the real world, children love me.”

“It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.”

“I've got a very interesting background.”

“I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.”

“Money for me today does not really matter.”

“More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.”

“Most of the time, I'm not even working; I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.”

“My affection for Taiwan... is witnessed by everyone. My wife is Taiwanese and I am a son-in-law of Taiwan. I am half Taiwanese.”

“My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.”

“My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.”

“Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.”

“Of course I get hurt.”

“Olympics for me is love, peace, united.”

“One day, I want to make a PG film.”

“Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.”

“Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.”

“Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.”

“Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.”

“The ads all call me fearless, but that's just publicity. Anyone who thinks I'm not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.”

“The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.”

“The movie business is a big gamble.”

“The world is too violent right now.”

“Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.”

“We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.”

“When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.”

“When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.”

“When I'm making an American film, it's more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, 'What are you doing!? Tell me first!' There are so many restrictions.”

“You cannot mix sports with politics.”