Jackie Quotes

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

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

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

I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.

Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive

Bruce Lee brought the martial arts movie to the attention of the world - and without him, I don't think that anyone would have ever heard of Jackie Chan.

Styles be fat like Jackie Gleason, the rest be Art Carney.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

I used to skip school to go there when I was growing up in Newark, ... I saw the Flamingos, the Heartbeats, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Jackson.

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

Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.

You think when Jesus comes back, he really wants to see a cross? That's like going up to Jackie Onassis with a rifle pendant on.

No matter how much more I practice, my English will never be perfect. If it is really terrible, I'll correct it, but otherwise, I do it my Jackie Chan way.

When I was a young kid I loved Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett and Jackie Vernon.

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?'.

This guy don't come to the ballpark to beat you. He comes to beat you bad. This (Jackie) Robinson, he plays a ton.

I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.

I get called Jacqueline Bissette in America. In France, I get called Jackie Bisset. And actually, it is Jacqueline Bisset, which is not that easy to say.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

I jack, I rob, I sin. Aw man, I'm Jackie Robinson 'Cept when I run base, I dodge the pen

Will I die slain like my King by a terrorist? Will my woman be Coretta, take my name and cherish it? Or will she Jackie O., drop the Kennedy, remarry it?

He (Jackie Robinson) was the greatest competitor I've ever seen. I've seen him beat a team with his bat, his ball, his glove, his feet and, in a game in Chicago one time, with his mouth.

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

I was doing an hour drama on television and a Jackie Chan movie in Toronto, so I was on a plane every three days.

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.

One take, so you better be ready and you better be good. One take and that was it. It was something that was spontaneous. Both Sid Caesar and Jackie Gleason was like that as well.

To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.

I wake the dead. I bring Jackie Robinson and the Roosevelts to life. Who do you think Im trying to wake up?

I had just turned 20, and Jackie told me the only way to be successful at anything was to go out and do it. He said baseball was a game you played every day, not once a week.

Jackie [Kennedy] wore one of my dresses – it was made from kitchen curtain material – and people went crazy.

When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.

I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn.

Jackie considered his resurrection, the world's best return performance.

Not because I'm trying to be fabulous, but I love those big crazy Jackie O shades.

Jackie Chan is a myth.

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.

I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li.

Jackie had a keen eye for talent, and like an elephant never forgot. And, he was always right on the mark.

How could you get angry with Jackie Gleason?

Jackie Kennedy was magnificent in the days and weeks immediately following her husband's assassination. She was especially wonderful to me.

All though I didn't meet him. His legend and his saga and his story is just that. Jackie Robinson, we all have to tip our hat to him. Because he made the game available to guys like me.

We had a love-hate relationship. Jackie knew exactly what she could get out of one of my photos.

I think I've drawn from some of the most feminine women, like Jackie Kennedy. I am totally devastated that she's gone. She had it all.

I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that.

Jackie Robinson is a true legend.

Mine was an easy ride compared to Jackie Robinson's.

I was carrying Jackie Stewart's bag! Formula One was pretty much the same back then.

Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa. To the latecomers are left the bones.

It was a bit of a lark when I agreed to do [Smokey and the Bandit], and I knew we'd have fun if we could get Jackie Gleason.

Not stupid. Overly trusting, maybe, but that reflects on his lack of trustworthiness, not on your intelligence.