One thing I did pick up from Cannonball Run was the use of bloopers and outtakes under the final credits, which I've done in all my movies since.

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.

The investments of your youth, are drafts upon your old age. Invest sheer poetry in yourself.

We're just getting started. We're just beginning to meet what will be the future-we've got the Model T.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

God's dice always have a lucky roll.

I have younger kids, and I adopted them late in life. They don't know these people [from Annie Hall] at all.

Diplomacy can be a frustrating thing. I think the strategy can work, so long as the force is robust and the rules of engagement are clear.

They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.

We are born knowing how to be just. And we die knowing we spent a lifetime pretending we didn't.

Tis safter to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.