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

Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.

Nothing makes me more determined to succeed than someone telling me something's impossible.

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

Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

Family is not who's blood is in you, is who you love and who loves you

The best fights are the ones we avoid.

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

Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person's life.

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.

The children right now, the young children, everybody should go to a martial arts school. Why? Because as soon as they go to a martial arts school, they learn discipline.

They are orphans again, with no true home but each other and whatever life they can make together on the other side of the sea.

If you do not believe you are a lost sheep, then you do not need a Savior who is the Good Shepherd Jesus Christ. John 10:11-14.

(...) a director should tell a story that is close to his own existential experience.

I never went to a photography school, which was my saving grace.

My music is the chicken soup kind. I want people to get a good feeling in their soul from these songs. Roots rock, heartland rock...whatever you want to call it is OK with me.

Having a nightclub in your house really helps for having a party, because then you don't need to go out.

What is interesting to me about Vikings is that they were failed farmers.

My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.

What I'm looking forward to is changing the course America is on.

I'm a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.