Quotes About Bruce Lee

#1. Bruce Lee loved all different styles of martial arts. He believed that you shouldn't limit yourself to one style, because martial arts is just another form of human expression.

Jake Shimabukuro

#2. A guy like Bruce Lee, I've always been a fan. How he used to be able to move and be so quick. You look at some of the exercises that he did, and it was all majority free weight, like standing on your hands. That works every muscle. Everything is firing.

Adrian Peterson

#3. I read a Bruce Lee quote that shifted how I'm trying to live my life right now. He said, "Some targets are only meant to be aimed at." Right? And I took that to mean a shift for myself from goal orientation to path orientation.

Will Smith

#4. I threw about 16 punches in 3 seconds. It was some Bruce Lee speed!

David Haye

#5. I'm inspired by my master's movie 'Kerd ma lui,' Bruce Lee's 'Fists of Fury,' and Jackie Chan's 'Police Story.'

Tony Jaa

#6. In the film industry, we tend to pick up where others have left off, and I'd like to think the influences I picked up from Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sylvester Stallone and Jean-Claude Van Damme are visible in my work.

Scott Adkins

#7. Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.

Jet Li

#8. Bruce Lee's fast pace, Jet Li's pretty style and Jet Li's acrobatics combine with Muay Thai for my own style.

Tony Jaa

#9. I used to live in Seattle, as did Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Lee. I lived near the arboretum. Very often I would take walks late at night by Lake Washington, because I found it very easy to meditate there.

Frederick Lenz

#10. I am all styles yet I am no style," said Bruce Lee.

Davis Miller

#11. Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#12. I don't really want to be compared to Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan, but I really feel honored and really proud that people actually see me as them or similar to them, and because they are my inspiration for what I have become today. I am really honored that people compare me to those people.

Tony Jaa

#13. Bruce Lee brought the martial arts movie to the attention of the world - and without him, I don't think that anyone would have ever heard of Jackie Chan.

Jackie Chan

#14. If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. ----- Bruce Lee

Patrick James Ryan

#15. I was raised on Bruce Lee.

Bridget Fonda

#16. Bruce Lee only played himself. Chuck Norris is a martial artist that does acting. I want to be an actor that does martial arts.

Leo Howard

#17. My father was a big Bruce Lee fan. He's Chinese-Hawaiian, and my mother is Chinese. He used to take us to all these really fantastical films with martial arts in them. And Bruce Lee was amazing.

Jason Scott Lee

#18. Who's Bruce Lee?" Kenji asks, horrified. "Oh my God. We can't even be friends anymore.

Tahereh Mafi

#19. Self-actualization is the important thing. And my personal message to people is that I hope they will go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization. I hope that they will search within themselves for honest self-expression. - Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee

#20. It had been like watching Emma Peel, Bruce Lee, and a particularly vicious tornado, all rolled into one and sprinkled with a generous helping of footage he had once seen on a wildlife program of a mongoose killing a king cobra

Neil Gaiman

#21. If I get some Bruce Lee nun-chucks that he actually used in a movie, those are going in the case. Those will never be used. Those will never be touched.

Tracy Morgan

#22. And you should warn him that if he hurts you, I will scissor kick him in the nuts. Tell him, okay? You tell him that. Because I mean it. I'll go all kinds of Bruce Lee on his tasty ass.

M. Leighton

#23. Listen, Bruce Lee fought out of anger. That's why they call it the 'Fists of Fury.' Michael Jackson danced with fury. I do stand up out of fury. I'm not mad at anybody. I'm not mad at any human being because I'm a human being.

Tracy Morgan

#24. One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity. - BRUCE LEE

Timothy Ferriss

#25. When I was young, I saw a lot of martial arts films with Jet Li, Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee. I loved them. They are my heroes but, I'm so powerful, I'm so faster. I'm so young and so handsome like a model. I really loved them so they are my role models.

Rain

#26. I just remember Bruce Lee blowing my mind on the screen, and I thought to myself, 'That's what I want to do for a living when I'm older.' Bruce Lee was so magnetic and charismatic and held the screen so well.

Scott Adkins

#27. Jackie Chan, Jet Li and Bruce Lee are my masters; they're the inspiration for my work. Bruce Lee was a heavy fighter who threw hard punches. Jackie moves very fast and uses a lot of comedy, and Jet Li is very fluid. I've tried to combine all of their styles and added some things of my own

Tatchakorn Yeerum

#28. If you ask most high schoolers who Bruce Lee is, they will say that it someone they sit next to in English class.

Seth Rogen

#29. Men, when they fight in movies, it's a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he had the whip, and Bruce Lee was such an artist that you couldn't take your eyes off of him.

Lucy Liu

#30. I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.

Randall Park

#31. My mum lives in Boston; she's famous for teaching wushu and t'ai chi. So from when I was young, my mum and aunt were like: 'You're training; you're not playing baseball or football.' Training every day was normal. Later, when I was almost a teenager, Bruce Lee became my idol.

Donnie Yen

#32. When did we get too old for this, Daeng? What happened to those days when we were somersaulting through the air with a cutlass in each hand taking out the enemy twenty at a time?"

"I don't think that was us, Love. That was Bruce Lee.

Colin Cotterill

#33. I can pretty much say that because of Bruce Lee and Jean-Claude Van Damme, that's why I do what I do today.

Scott Adkins

#34. My father was, like, the token bad white guy in all the old Jackie Chan/Bruce Lee films.

Celina Jade

#35. The martial arts that I got into was because of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, because of all of the animal styles at the time. It was around about the time when Jackie was doing 'Drunken Master,' and, like, Snake versus this and that.

Ray Park

#36. Speaking of things that'll make your head explode, "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story" finally made it to the drive-in

Joe Bob Briggs

#37. I did a movie where my character was obsessed with Bruce Lee, so I learned everything about Bruce Lee, read everything, watched his movies.

Dakota Johnson

#38. She's like Bruce Lee, the Hulk and Neo from The Matrix all rolled in to one.

Kendare Blake

#39. Richard was thunderstruck: it had been like watching Emma Peel, Bruce Lee, and a particularly vicious tornado, all rolled into one and sprinkled with a generous helping of a mongoose killing a cobra. That was how she moved. That was how she fought.

Neil Gaiman

#40. Bruce Lee was the first guy to bring film recognition of Asian men not being wimps, so it made me want to be as powerful as he was.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

#41. I mean emotionally, women are like Bruce Lee and we're like Donald Duck. An' I think a lotta guys are afraid of that.

Jonathan Ashworth

#42. I took three years of karate because of Bruce Lee, you know. I was a green belt.

Marjane Satrapi

#43. The person that made me want to make movies, and the reason I do films, is Bruce Lee. He was an incredible actor, and he had a lot of charisma. Handsome, action, you know, everything was there. I loved Bruce Lee.

LL Cool J

#44. I had to make my body fit like Bruce Lee. I trained for eight months, five days a week, eight hours a day. I just ate chicken breasts and vegetables, sometimes just egg whites.

Rain

#45. As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, 'I don't want to become like Bruce Lee's son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.' I just think my son is too lazy.

Jackie Chan

#46. If you look at pictures of the bodies of Muhammad Ali, Ray Robinson, or, for that matter, Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee, you'll see physique in perfect proportion and built for function.

Tom Schreck

#47. Bruce Lee was the first star I idolized. Growing up as a Chinese American, there weren't many people like me on the big screen.

Daniel Wu

#48. I'm a big Bruce Lee fan, and if I saw Bruce Lee try to be some namby-pamby lawyer, I'd want my money back.

Jason Statham

#49. As you think, so shall you become' Bruce Lee.

Faith Charity

#50. My style is like Bruce Lee, I'm like water. It's everything from defensive, to counters, to offense.

Nonito Donaire

#51. For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country.

Donnie Yen

#52. Switchin' speeds like Bruce Lee ridin' up Fuji in a movie.

Redman

#53. Michael's the ultimate entertainer. After Michael Jackson, it's Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, and Bruce Lee.

Tracy Morgan

#54. I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

Jackie Chan

#55. My god-father, Bob Wall, was in a couple of Bruce Lee movies, and he trained Bruce Lee when he came to America.

Freddie Prinze Jr.

#56. Boards, don't hit back. ~Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee

#57. Bruce Lee, before he fought, he would try to visualize how the fight would go, because he was visualizing a victorious path out of the combat.

Fred D'Aguiar

#58. You just got to out there and flow, like Bruce Lee said, you got to be like water.

Cub Swanson

#59. I fight like Bruce Lee. I train in his style of kung fu, wing chun. It's all about fighting with controlled power, so you learn to punch correctly.

Lucy Griffiths

#60. In the middle of chaos lies opportunity
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#61. Bruce Lee has always been a hero of mine, and the choreography in 'Enter The Dragon' is amazing.

Benedict Wong

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

Brandon Lee

#63. When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

Jackie Chan

#64. Because of styles people are separated. Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.

Bruce Lee

#65. Believe me that in every big thing or achievement there are always obstacles-big or small- and the reaction one shows to such obstacles is what counts, not the obstacle itself.

Bruce Lee

#66. The more aware you become, the more you shed from day to day what you have learned so that your mind is always fresh and uncontaminated by previous conditioning.

Bruce Lee

#67. The body performs better when the athlete lets it go than when he tries to drive it.

Bruce Lee

#68. A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

Bruce Lee

#69. Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.

Bruce Lee

#70. Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience.

Bruce Lee

#71. A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Bruce Lee

#72. The reward is found in the work.

Bruce Lee

#73. The highest technique is to have no technique. My technique is a result of your technique; my movement is a result of your movement.

Bruce Lee

#74. The aim of education. - Education: to discover but not merely to imitate. Learning techniques without inward experiencing can only lead to superficiality.

Bruce Lee

#75. Goals give life substance. - To strive actively to achieve some goal gives your life meaning and substance.

Bruce Lee

#76. Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.

Bruce Lee

#77. All these years later, people still wonder about how Bruce died. I prefer to remember how he lived.

Linda Lee Cadwell

#78. To express oneself honestly, not lying to oneself - that, my friend, is very hard to do.

Bruce Lee

#79. To take responsibility for one's own actions, good and bad, is something else.

Bruce Lee

#80. You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement, absorbing his attack and using his force to overcome him.

Bruce Lee

#81. It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Bruce Lee

#82. Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

Bruce Lee

#83. Get maximum effect from minimum effort.

Bruce Lee

#84. You cannot force the Now. - But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.

Bruce Lee

#85. Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, actualize yourself.

Bruce Lee

#86. Take inventory of everyone with whom you have contact.

Bruce Lee

#87. To be bound by traditional martial art style or styles is the way of the mindless, enslaved martial artist. But to be inspired by the traditional martial art and to achieve further heights is the way of genius.

Bruce Lee

#88. Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave.

Bruce Lee

#89. Every morning like a scholar at his first class I prepare a blank mind for the day to write upon.

Bruce Lee

#90. There is no mystery about my style. My movements are simple, direct and non-classical. The extraordinary part of it lies in its simplicity. Every movement in Jeet Kune-Do is being so of itself. There is nothing artificial about it. I always believe that the easy way is the right way.

Bruce Lee

#91. Each moment that passes changes you ... You can't even own yourself. How can you ever hope to own anyone or anything else.

Bruce Lee

#92. Emptiness the starting point. - In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty.

Bruce Lee

#93. The more relaxed the muscles are, the more energy can flow through the body. Using muscular tensions to try to 'do' the punch or attempting to use brute force to knock someone over will only work to opposite effect.

Bruce Lee

#94. The second-hand artist blindly following his sensei or sifu accepts his pattern. As a result, his action is and , more importantly, his thinking become mechanical. His responses become automatic, according to set patterns, making him narrow and limited.

Bruce Lee

#95. All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Bruce Lee

#96. To know, but to be as though not knowing, is the height of wisdom.

Bruce Lee

#97. All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.

Bruce Lee

#98. I've come to understand that life is best lived, not conceptualized.

Bruce Lee

#99. Long after you have reached the end of your natural span, part of you will dwell within me . . . as I shall be in you to the last of your days and even after.

Bruce Lee Bond

#100. Unfortunately, now in boxing people are only allowed to punch. In Judo, people are only allowed to throw. I do not despise these kinds of martial arts. What I mean is, we now find rigid forms which create differences among clans, and the world of martial art is shattered as a result.

Bruce Lee