#martial

When you have a background in combat sports, people think you're this martial arts expert, but really I'm just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself. ↗

— Rick Yune

#arts #background #certain #certain things #combat

As a kid, I was heavily into martial arts and wanted to be the next Jean-Claude Van Damme. ↗

— Chris Daughtry

#heavily #i #into #kid #martial

I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China. ↗

— Jet Li

#arts #championship #china #coach #first

I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies. ↗

— Jet Li

#arts #audience #because #comedy #different

I didn't go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts. ↗

— Jet Li

#children #go #i #martial #martial arts

I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old. ↗

— Jet Li

#been #i #learning #martial #martial arts

Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how to do and Jet Li does a martial art that Jackie Chan doesn't know how to do. You can both go to two Chinese restaurants, but both can have different kinds of food. ↗

— Jet Li

#arts #both #chan #chinese #comedy

Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy. ↗

— Jet Li

#action films #arts #back #bad #bad guy

Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope. ↗

— Jet Li

#arts #chinese #chinese culture #chinese people #culture

I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music. ↗

— Lou Reed

#arts #choreography #could #i #i always