HONG KONG (AP) — It may be a well-worn cliche, but for Hong Kong star Jackie Chan, action really does speak louder than words — at least when it comes to English dialogue.The actor is often frustrated by his inability to deliver his English lines smoothly during shooting of “Rush Hour 3,” according to an entry on his Web site Saturday.

“To me, action scenes are so easy, but dialogue scenes drive me crazy. The directors and producers want me to speak everything perfectly,” he wrote while filming in Los Angeles.

“Sometimes when a word is in the past tense or plural, I get confused. It is hard to remember lengthy dialogue and still sound natural.

“I have to say my lines over and over again until I get it right,” he said. “I want to ask them ‘Can I speak Jackie Chan English?”’

Chan is a prolific actor, but he has said his roles there are limited because of his grasp of English. Chan dedicated one diary entry to co-star Chris Tucker, thanking him for helping with the dialogue. Chan also said he was grateful to director Brett Ratner who tried to simplify the lines.

In the “Rush Hour” series, Chan plays a Hong Kong police officer and Tucker portrays his Los Angeles counterpart, with the movie’s humour drawing on cultural differences between the two. “Rush Hour 3” is due for release next year.LONDON (AP) — Paul McCartney said he bears no grudge against his estranged second wife — despite acrimonious divorce proceedings that have seen lurid allegations about their marriage reported across the world.The 64-year-old former Beatle said the break up — seized on in Britain as the most high-profile split since Prince Charles and Princess Diana parted ways a decade ago — had left him saddened but determined to act with dignity.

“There are certain things in life that are personal, and I think a relationship with a partner is intensely personal and I prefer to keep it that way,” McCartney told British Broadcasting Corp. radio in an interview broadcast Saturday.

McCartney and Heather Mills McCartney, a 38-year-old anti-land mine campaigner, announced their separation in May and began divorce proceedings in July. They have a three-year-old daughter, Beatrice.

“When you are going through difficulties, I think the thing to do for the sake of all the people concerned is to keep a certain dignity and remember that it is a private affair, and that way, you will probably get through it better,” he said.

McCartney said keeping details of the divorce private would “put less noses out of joint, and I think it is a more dignified way to go about it.”

He was interviewed Friday, following the premiere of his classical composition “Ecce Cor Meum” (Behold My Heart) at London’s Royal Albert Hall, the BBC said. He said the work was inspired by the death of his first wife, Linda, from breast cancer in 1998.

Mills McCartney last month said she would take legal action against a number of British newspapers who published disparaging claims about her husband, alleged to have been contained in divorce court papers drawn up on her behalf.

McCartney’s lawyers said he would vigourously defend himself against the allegations that he had physically abused his second wife.

“Life goes on, I do not hold grudges against anyone, I don’t blame anyone for the sadnesses that have happened to me. I am sad about them because it would stupid to be otherwise,” McCartney said. “I think life goes on, and it is what you make of it, so I am pretty optimistic.