Brandon Lee Quotes



Best 28 Quotes by Brandon Lee

“A fight can express things people might not be able to say with words.”

“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.”

“Action-adventure, that genre, only works for me if you can care about the characters. If the hero's not taking some kind of a journey, then there are no stakes – and no stakes, then you don't care if he lives or dies, wins or loses.”

“All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life.”

“Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really.”

“Being brawny or brave only gets you so far. Soul can make up for anything.”

“Believe me, nothing is trivial.”

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

“For what level of mediocrity will you settle?”

“God knows the times I have found myself in absurd situations.”

“I always had a pretty good knack for raising hell.”

“I always wanted to be an actor, it was just a matter of time before I got there.”

“I don't want to be remembered as the son of Bruce Lee.”

“I just happen to like the action-adventure movies. No law that says you can't work in all types of dramatic stuff.”

“I've done my work and I'm happy with it. I respect my father very much, but I'm a very different person than he was.”

“I've wanted to follow my dad into acting for as long as I can remember. I've had a very serious round of dramatic training, and I like action films that take their characters seriously, so I figure I'm making it the best of both worlds if I try to bring some serious acting to a shoot-'em-up picture.”

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“If you've ever found yourself pushed to the limits of your tolerance you find yourself doing some things that, from the outside, can be seen as quite insane.”

“Immortality is first living a life worth remembering.”

“Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.”

“It can't rain all the time.”

“Martial arts have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember.”

“My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did in keeping me in line, I'll be very happy.”

“My only bad sin I guess is that I drink a lot of coffee.”

“The more I align myself to my curiosities and a sense of purpose, the happier I am, more fulfilled I am, and the more things I get done.”

“We tend to take a great deal for granted, because you feel like you're going to live forever. It's only if you lose a friend, or maybe have a near-death experience, that many events and people in your life suddenly attain real significance.”

“You only have the burdens on you that you choose to put there.”

“You're dealing with a character who is, at some points, quite insane. And I hope that any wicked, dark sense of humor Eric exhibits comes out of the fact that he'd been pushed to the point where it seems quite sensible to say some of the ridiculous things he says.”

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