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

"When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things."

"Of course I get hurt."

"I love reading book"

"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."

"I just make good movies. That's the way I thank my fans."

"I'm crazy, but I'm not too crazy."

"I'm not a god - I do bad things."

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

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

"I'm not young anymore. I'm really, really tired. And the world is too violent right now. It's a dilemma - I like action but I don't like violence."

"Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"I've got a very interesting background."

"Money for me today does not really matter."

"The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones."

"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."

"I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games."

"Jackie Chan is a myth."

"Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed."

"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."