"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."

"In every movie I do have a dialogue."

"I give the children education."

"I really like children to watch my movies."

"One day, I want to make a PG film."

"I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now."

"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've choreographed all of my movies."

"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."

"In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make."

"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 I have a responsibility to the fans."

"Actor's life is very long."

"I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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 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."

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

"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've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry."

"Olympics for me is love, peace, united."

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

"I want to show audiences I can act."

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

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

"I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences."

"I hate interviews - but you have to do them."

"I do small things. I try to do good things every day."

"If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be."

"When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect."

"Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan."

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

"In the real world, children love me."

"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."

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

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

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

"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?'."

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

"Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances."

"Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax."

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

"I only want my work to make people happy."