"American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt."

Car, American, Hurt, Safety

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"American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt."

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

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"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."

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"Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie."

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"Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again."

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"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?'."

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"I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years."

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

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"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."

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"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."

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

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"The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car."

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"The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam."

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"I own stock, and I also insure my car with Geico."

Ernie Banks, American Athlete

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"I lived on the top of one hill and the school was at the top of another hill. Nobody ever went to school by car - we didn't have any cars during the war. So that to and from school was itself a training."

Roger Bannister, British Athlete

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"Should we have background checks, waiting periods? To drive a car you have to pass a test that shows you know how to drive your car safely, you should have to do the same thing with guns."

Michael D. Barnes, American Politician

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Matthew Barney, American Artist

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