Jason Tripitikas quotes from The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)

View Quote Jason Tripitikas: I can't understand you!
Lu Yan: [in English, when he previously spoke in a Chinese dialect] That's because you're not listening!

View Quote Jason Tripitikas: How long as he been imprisoned?
Lu Yan: Five hundred years, give or take a few decades.
Jason: So how do I get home?
Lu Yan: You must return the staff you Five Elements Mountain, you must free the Monkey King!
Jason: I can't free the Monkey King. I gotta get home
Lu Yan: (ignoring Jason for the moment) Innkeeper, more wine!
Jason: Geez, don't you think you had one too many?
Lu Yan: Wine is my inspiration. In some parts, I'm known as a poet. Gan bei. (Mandarin for 'cheers')
[innkeeper arrives with the bill]
Lu Yan: In other parts, I'm known as a beggar. [gently moves the innkeeper towards Jason for him to pay]

View Quote [Lu Yan is in bed, dying from his arrow wound]
Lu Yan: When I was your age, I was a scholar-warrior in training. My arrow was good, so too my kung fu. I was chosen to take the several exams. To pass would place me among a short line of scholar immortals. I failed.
Jason: You're not immortal?
Lu Yan: If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. ....But then, does he ever truly live? I'd rather die a mortal, with a care for someone, than to live as an immortal free from his death.
Jason: I don't wanna lose you.
Lu Yan: Forget about me.

View Quote Lu Yan: It is said that master and student walk side-by-side, sharing their fate, until they go their separate ways.
Jason: I will never forget you.
Lu Yan: I guess that's what being immortal truly means.

View Quote Jason: Is this a dream?
Lu Yan: No, where you come from is the dream, through the gate of no gate.
Jason: What is that, like a wormhole or something?
Lu Yan: No, either you are a Zen Master, or you carry something very special.
Jason: [points to the staff] This? It was in a pawnshop waiting for a guy to pick it up, and return it to its rightful owner.

View Quote [guards come into the inn]
Jason: What are we gonna do?
Lu Yan: How good is your Kung Fu?
[Jason does not reply immediately]
Lu Yan: Ah! He who speaks, does not know. He who knows, does not speak. Surely, you're masterful.

View Quote Jade Warlord: The seeker from the prophecy. Not quite what I expected.
Jason Tripitikas: A man is dying on Song Mountain. I need the elixir.
Jade Warlord: The power to save a life for the power to rule a kingdom, a most generous offer. This man, a good friend?
Jason Tripitikas: And a good teacher.
Jade Warlord: The man who honors his teacher honors himself.