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Martial Art Quotes

Ohmygod," Jade whispered, panicked. She grabbed my arm and yanked, almost knocking me off balance. "Something moved in those bushes."
I shoved her off, pointed to the ground, and smiled. From under the bush, long ears attached to a tiny brown speckles head peeked out. "Yeah. That bunny is a Denazen suit in disguise. Where do you suppose he's hiding his gun? Or maybe he doesn't need one. Maybe he's a martial arts master trained in the art of kickassery.
- Jus Accardo

I'm Charlotte Davidson: private investigator, police consultant, all -around badass. Or I could've been a badass, had I stuck with those lessons in mixed martial arts. I was only in that class to learn how to kill people with paper.
- Darynda Jones

Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can using only their hands and feet make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.
- Dave Barry

But my middle daughter, Kate, is very involved in martial arts, and I was just at one of her competitions.
- Meredith Baxter

Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character.
- Bo Bennett

The Destructive Arts are exactly like Martial Arts, except they don't have uniforms or usefulness and the end result doesn't resemble art in any way.
- Jim Benton

Aikido ain't a defensive nor offensive martial art.
It proactively halts the enemy's intention to attack.
- Toba Beta

Never write about martial arts..
if you've never been in a real fight.
- Toba Beta

I'm learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise.
- Traci Bingham

My time of martial arts was traditional.
- Jean Claude Van Damme

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

I wanted to be a martial arts film star when I was a teenager.
- Chris Daughtry

You think? I snapped, jumping when Newt slammed a side kick into the barrier, her robes swirling dramatically. Great, she knew martial arts on top of everything else. Why not? She'd obviously been around a while.
- Kim Harrison

Martial arts just normally would not draw me to the box office.
- Mary Hart

I'm a martial arts buff, so anything martial arts.
- Noah Hathaway

Are you going to kick somebody's ass?
I don't know. Maybe.
Well, I'm not going to worry. I've watched you spar with that martial arts dummy in the backyard lots of times, and you always win.
Thanks, buddy. I'll see you soon.
- Kevin Hearne

Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker.
- Milla Jovovich

I need a weapon," Valkyrie muttered.
"You're an Elemental with a Necromancer ring, trained in
a variety of martial arts by some of the best ghters in the world," Skulduggery pointed out. "I'm fairly certain that makes you a weapon."
"I mean a weapon you hold. You have a gun, Tanith has a sword... I want a stick."
"I'll buy you a stick for Christmas.
- Derek Landy

I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.
- Ang Lee

For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline.
- Brandon Lee

A large part of my life revolves around my dad. Sometimes, I even feel a strong sense of connection, something very tangible when I learn something new in the martial arts.
- Brandon Lee

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
- Bruce Lee

I'm a huge boxing and mixed martial arts fan.
- Sung Hi Lee

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

I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won't make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years.
- Jet Li

Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.
- Jet Li

I think "Hero" is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula.
- Jet Li

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

When I was 8 years old, I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school.
- Jet Li

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

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

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

You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" to talk about love.
- Jet Li

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

I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
- Jet Li

Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.
- Mako

The ultimate aim of martial arts is not having to use them
- Miyamoto Musashi

The true science of martial arts means practicing them in such a way that they will be useful at any time, and to teach them in such a way that they will be useful in all things.
- Miyamoto Musashi

It wasn't until I went to Korea out of high school and got exposed to the martial arts for the first time and was just completely enamored with the physical ability of the martial arts and making my black belt.
- Chuck Norris

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

I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.
- Lou Reed

I don't have to have any special skills or martial arts in my back pocket.
- Jason Ritter

That has not yet been put to the test. I got my fourth-degree black belt this winter. When I make martial arts noises, thousands flee in terror. Don't test me."
"Can you hear that? It's my knees knocking."
"They're wise to fear me.
- Nora Roberts

As a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I'm trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger.
- Steven Seagal

When you're dead weight, in the right position, you win. And in reality, you wouldn't see someone my size kicking seven martial arts experts and winning.
- Joan Severance

I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same.
- Terence Stamp

I endured many weeks of it, but I had a big background in martial arts and fighting as a kid, so kind of all the problems got brushed away and I was ready.
- Jason Statham

I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held one before and I'm physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff.
- Yvonne Strahovski

I want to learn martial arts," he said docilely, "so when I want to kill
someone, I can do something about it.
- Neil Strauss

Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts.
- Tony Visconti

There is also a strong following among the urbanites on the East Coast when it comes to martial arts films.
- Donnie Yen

Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs.
- Donnie Yen

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

I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult.
- Zhang Ziyi

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