Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they do not like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I do not like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.- Jackie Chan
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 ads all call me fearless, but that is just publicity. Anyone who thinks I am not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.
Sometimes I would like to play the bad guy and sometimes I would like to die in a movie.
Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.
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?'.
I am tired of fighting. I have always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
I am crazy, but I am not too crazy.
I am crazy, but I am not stupid.
I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.
I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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 hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.
I do not 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.
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.
