"If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women."

"If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!"

"I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them."

"I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped."

"I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself."

"Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot."

"Acting is everybody's favorite second job."

"Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide."

"Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life."

"In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right."

"Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love."

"I like to not care that much about criticism, but I do care about it."

"In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails."

"When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award."

"I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it."

"I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that."

"I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do."

"I have a lot of vanity."

"Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor."

"I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor."

"I always knew there wasn't going to be anybody to help me and emotionally support me, that whatever I did I'd have to do on my own."

"I worry from the moment I take a job. I worry about how I'm going to do it, if I can do it... Then I walk on set and the director says, 'Roll', and all of a sudden, all of it disappears and it's all happening, and I relax, and I'm doing what I do, and I'm not even thinking about it."

"I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being."

"When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun."

"I prepare for the worst, but hope for the best."

"I'm afraid to fail again."

"The movie business is a big gamble."

"When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'"

"You cannot mix sports with politics."

"I like to give back."

"I love to clean."

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

"I have a metal plate in my head, and can pop my shoulder and pop it back."

"My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films."

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

"I play a nobody in Japan."

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

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

"When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office."

"I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school."

"We're all the same inside."

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

"I'm good for some things, bad for a lot of things."

"When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!'"

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

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

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

"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 want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star - I am an actor, too."

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