Brandon Lee Quotes

#1. For what level of mediocrity will you settle?

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#2. 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.

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

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#4. It can't rain all the time - from The Crow

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#5. 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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#6. 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.

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#7. Believe me, nothing is trivial

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

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#9. 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.

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#10. You only have the burdens on you that you choose to put there.

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#11. I always had a pretty good knack for raising hell.

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#12. Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.

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#13. A fight can express things people might not be able to say with words.

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#14. 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.

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#15. It's extreme. The character comes back from the dead, and, at first he doesn't know where he is, how he got there ... How does that tie in with the physicality? I just didn't think he should be too healthy-looking, so I lost some weight for the role.

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#16. .. and yet it all seems limitless...

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#17. I'd like to be able to show 'Rapid Fire' to my dad. I'm that proud of what we've accomplished within the framework of the action-adventure formula.

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#18. 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.

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

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#20. God knows the times I have found myself in absurd situations.

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#21. 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.

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#22. I don't want to be remembered as 'the son of Bruce Lee'.

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#23. 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.

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