Jackie Chan biography, quotes, stunts and songs: 成龙 明明白白我的心 Ming Ming Bai Bai Wo De Xin So clear is my heart: lyrics, pinyin, English translation

Personal details:

Name: Jackie Chan
Born: 7 April 1954 (Age: 57)
Where: Hong Kong, China
Height: 5′ 8″

Biography:

In childhood, he suffered terrible poverty and the most painfully rigorous of educations. In his early career, he was almost cast aside as just another in a long line of failed Next Bruce Lees. In perfecting his craft, he’s broken his nose three times, and also cracked his ankle, most of his fingers, both his cheekbones and his skull (patched together with a steel plate). You can’t say Jackie Chan hasn’t paid his dues. But finally, after nearly 40 years in the business, the guy’s reached worldwide stardom. As he always wanted, pretty much everyone knows his name.

Jackie Chan was born Chan Kong-Sang (meaning Born In Hong Kong) on the 7th of April, 1954, naturally enough in Hong Kong. He was the only child of Charles and Lee-Lee Chan, having, reports say, spent 12 months in the womb, finally being removed surgically and weighing 12 pounds (his mum nicknamed him Pao-Pao, meaning Cannonball). Charles borrowed money from friends to pay for the operation, turning down the doctor’s offer to take the child in payment. The family lived in a mansion in the exclusive Victoria Peak district. Not that his parents owned the mansion – Charles worked as a cook for the French Ambassador, while Lee-Lee was the housekeeper.

Jackie attended the Nah-Hwa primary school on Hong Kong Island, often spending his travel money on food and walking home, fighting on the way with Caucasian kids attending special schools in the area. He was not academically bright, failing to pass Primary 1 as his peers moved on to Primary 3. This was noticed by Charles, who decided to enrol the boy, now 7, at the Peking Opera School, operated by Shu Master Yu Jan-Yuen. Walking in with his dad, Jackie saw tens of kids, between 7 and their early teens, somersaulting and playing with swords and sticks. He recalls that he felt like kids must feel today on entering Disneyland. He would never return to academic education. Though he speaks 7 languages, he still cannot read or write with great proficiency, and has someone else write his scripts for him.

It didn’t stay like Disneyland. Charles now moved to Australia to work at the Chinese Embassy, and Jackie, now named Yuen Lo, saw the true nature of the Peking Opera School. The training in music, acrobatics and many martial arts lasted 18 hours a day. Exercises were brutal, the kids performing headstands for hours on end. Beatings were commonplace, both at the hands of the Master and the other boys. Eventually, Jackie’s mother left too, to join Charles in Australia, Jackie being adopted by the single-minded Master.

Read the complete biography, see: http://www.talktalk.co.uk/entertainment/film/biography/artist/jackie-chan/biography/45

Jackie Chan quotes

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‘Jackie, are you scared?’ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.
Jackie Chan

After all those years in Asia, I don’t have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and – Boom! – people go.
Jackie Chan

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.
Jackie Chan

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
Jackie Chan

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
Jackie Chan

Don’t try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
Jackie Chan

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing – stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses – makes more money for me than making movies.
Jackie Chan

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.
Jackie Chan

I hate violence, yes I do. It’s kind of a dilemma, huh?.
Jackie Chan

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.
Jackie Chan

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

See more Jackie Chan’s quotes at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/jackie_chan.html

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One of Jackie Chan’s song: Ming Ming Bai Bai Wo De Xin
Listen to this song at the end of the posting 🙂

Ming Ming Bai Bai Wo De Xin (Cheng Long)
Nv: Ming ming bai bai wo de xin
Ke wang yi fen zhen gan qing
Ceng jing wei ai shang tou le xin
Wei shen me tian mi de meng rong yi xing

Nan: Ni you yi shuang wen rou de yan jing
Ni you shan jie ren yi de xin ling
Ru guo ni yuan yi Qing rang wo kao jin
Wo xiang ni hui ming bai wo de xin

Nv: Xing guang can lan Feng er qing
Zui shi ji mo nv er xin Gao bie jiu ri lian qing
Ba na chuang shang fu ping Bu zai liu lei dao tian ming

Nan: Wo ming ming bai bai ni de xin
Ke wang yi fen zhen gan qing
Nv: Wo ceng jing wei ai shang tou le xin
Wei shen me tian mi de meng rong yi xing

Nan: Ni you yi shuang wen rou de yan jing
Ni you shan jie ren yi de xin ling
Ru guo ni yuan yi Qing rang wo kao jin
Wo de xin shi you wo yuan yi ting

Nv: Ming ming bai bai ni de xin
Ke wang yi fen zhen gan qing
Ceng jing wei ai shang tou le xin
Wei shen me tian mi de meng rong yi xing

明明白白我的心 (成龍)
女：明明白白我的心
渴望一份真感情
曾經為愛傷透了心
為什麼甜蜜的夢容易醒

男：妳有一雙溫柔的眼睛
妳有善解人意的心靈
如果妳願意　請讓我靠近
我想你會明白我的心

女：星光燦爛　風兒輕
最是寂寞女兒心　告別舊日戀情
把那創傷撫平　不再流淚到天明

男：我明明白白妳的心
渴望一份真感情
女：我曾經為愛傷透了心
為什麼甜蜜的夢容易醒

男：妳有一雙溫柔的眼睛
妳有善解人意的心靈
如果妳願意　請讓我靠近
妳的心事有我願意聽

女：明明白白妳的心
渴望一份真感情
曾經為愛傷透了心
為什麼甜蜜的夢容易醒
So Transparent Is My Heart (Jackie Chan)
F: Understand my heart
I long for true feelings
I’ve been heartbroken by love before
Why is it easy to awaken from sweet dreams?

M: You have a pair of gentle eyes
You have a kind, understanding heart and soul
If you’re willing to let me be close to you
I think you will understand my heart

F: Starlight glitters, and the wind is light
The most lonely is a girl’s heart
bidding farewell to the past love
Heal the scars, never again will I let my tears flow until dawn

M: I understand your heart
It longs for true feelings
F: I’ve been heartbroken by love before
Why is it easy to awaken from sweet dreams?

M: You have a pair of gentle eyes
You have a kind, understanding heart and soul
If you’re willing to let me be close to you
I’m willing to listen to what’s on your mind

F: Understand my heart
I long for true feelings
I’ve been brokenhearted by love before
Why is it easy to awaken from sweet dreams?

Translator’s Notes
This is a duet; in my translation, F = female and M = male; Sarah Chen is the female vocalist for this song. Although the English title on Jackie’s “First Time” album says “So Transparent Is My Heart,” the title actually means “understand my heart.” –Luna.

See this song:
http://tingdong.powersugoi.net/song.php?song=178

and other Chan’s songs at:http://powersugoi.net/tingdong/artist.php?artist=78