A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.
Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
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'm crazy, but I'm not too crazy.
Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.
Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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.
Jackie Chan's son is also pursuing an acting career, Jackie told him not to tell agents that he was his father so his son would work to the top, not based on family reputation.
Jackie is good friends with Steven Seagal.
A drunken Jackie Chan jumped on stage with Taiwanese singer-songwriter Jonathan Lee in July 2006 and exchanged insults with the audience. He demanded a duet with Lee and then tried to conduct the band but stopped and restarted the music several times.
Jackie describes himself as being a shy person who has to be taken out of his shell.
Owen Wilson, on Jackie: My dog likes Jackie more, and so does my mother.
Jackie is best friends with Sylvester Stallone.
He is also a talented singer. He has released numerous albums in Asia. His music is normally heard in the outtakes of his HK movies. Movies include: The Young Master Project A (not in us version) Police Story (not in us version) Armour of God (not in us version) Project A 2 Police Story 2 Dragons Forever Armour of God 2: Operation Condor (not in us version) Twin Dragons (not in us version) Police Story 3 (not in us version) Drunken Master 2 (not in us version) Rumble in the Bronx (not in us version) Jackie Chans First Strike (not in us version) Thunderbolt Nice Guy Who Am I? Twins Effect New Police Story
His role models are Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloyd, all of which were more important to him as a child than any martial arts star, the latter label he was basically forced into at a very young age.
His parents worked at the American Embassy in Canberra, Australia. Jackie lived with them there for a while after one of his attempt in the movie business fell through.
Despite the minimal formal education he received, he was made an honorary doctor of social science of the Hong Kong Baptist University, and an honorary fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts.
In 1990, he was made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters) by the French Minister of Culture and Communication.
In 1989, he was made a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire by the British Government for Hong Kong/ Commonwealth.
Not only does he do his own stunts, but he is a lead-from-the-front kind of guy and expects the actors & actresses in his movies to do their own stunts as well.
Jackie is married to former Taiwanese actress Lam Fung Giu (in Cantonese) or Lin Feng Chiao (in Mandarin).
After his marriage, a young female fan commited suicide. After this incident, Jackie decided to keep his private life out of the public spotlight.
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