I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama. - Jackie Chan
I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent. - Jackie Chan
I want to be in 'Avatar'. I want somebody to hire me to be Superman, a Chinese Superman or Spider-Man. - Jackie Chan
I want to show audiences I can act. In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make. - Jackie Chan
I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star - I am an actor, too. - Jackie Chan
It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody. - Jackie Chan
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
When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!' - Jackie Chan
When I'm making an American film, it's more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, 'What are you doing!? Tell me first!' There are so many restrictions. - Jackie Chan
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance. - Oscar Wilde
Acting was something that just came along. But I made good money, so it wasn't something I was just going to put aside and pretend it didn't exist. - Kurt Russell
I think I've done a lot of movies that people would like to have seen a sequel to. But I grew up in a time when we didn't do sequels. You just did a movie because you wanted to do a movie and you wanted to tell a story. It wasn't to build a franchise. - Kurt Russell
If Quentin Tarantino is your writer-director then you're going to learn the words and your gonna learn why they're the words. You're gonna learn why they're the best words to say. - Kurt Russell
If they're willing to pay you what you think you're worth for it, that's why an actor goes to work. A lot of times they want to pay you a lot for a picture you don't want to do. - Kurt Russell
It's not easy making money as an actor. It's just not an easy thing to do. There's so many that want to do it and so few opportunities to do it that it's not as easy as it would seem. - Kurt Russell
Ultimately your job as an actor is to perform however you're being asked to perform and there's many different procedures as an actor that you're going to run into that you should be prepared for and be ready to go to work and do the best you can and give the director the best thing you can to hopefully give him things on that day that could be shot preserved and out into a canned, then when they go into the editing room that's where a movie's made. - Kurt Russell
When you first are in front of the camera as a young person, you'd be surprised at all the insecurities you can get. - Kurt Russell
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