There’s a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What’s the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it’s exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That’s really cool. That’s the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

In my father’s generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I’m wearing.

I’m not a god – I do bad things.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

One of my proudest moments is I didn’t sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

I see fighters make funny videos about me and stick them on Facebook and get 20 likes. When I make a video, I sell it to Fox and make seven figures. That’s the difference.

I’m not going to say I’m cool, because I don’t really feel that. I just don’t care at all, and I guess that’s what people think is cool.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

As long as my music is real, it’s no limit to how many ears I can grab.

Honestly, I’ve been thinking lately about how boring I am. When I do get time to myself, I watch TV.

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

I write the paragraph, then I’m crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type it up because sometimes it’s almost illegible, and if I wait, I might not be able to read it the next day.

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It’s because I’m not quite an atheist and it worries me. There’s that little bit that holds on: ‚Well, I’m almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.‘

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

It’s easy to forget who you are.

I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.

If, hypothetically, Western Catholicism were to review the issue of celibacy, I think it would do so for cultural reasons, not so much as a universal option.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

‚Trilogy‘ was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn’t left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that’s probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that’s what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

I don’t see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way – artistically.

I just want to be myself.

A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

At the core, one of my original goals is to redefine what the streets expect.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don’t.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that’s Memoirs.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you – but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

I am results-oriented.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That’s the Jackie Chan diary.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.

I do say things that I think will shock people. But I don’t do things to shock people. I’m not trying to be the next Tupac, but I don’t know how long I’m going to be on this planet. So while I’m here, I might as well make the most of it.

I tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it?

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?