Top 23 Quotes & Sayings by Brandon Lee

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Brandon Lee.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Brandon Bruce Lee was an American actor and martial artist. Establishing himself as a rising action star in the early 1990s, he landed his breakthrough role as Eric Draven in the dark fantasy film The Crow (1994). Lee's career, however, was cut short by his accidental death during The Crow's production.

American - Actor | February 1, 1965 - March 31, 1993

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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.

Brandon Lee

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

Brandon Lee

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.

Brandon Lee

I always had a pretty good knack for raising hell.

Brandon Lee

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.

Brandon Lee

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

Brandon Lee

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.

Brandon Lee

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

Brandon Lee

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

Brandon Lee

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

Brandon Lee

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.

Brandon Lee

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.

Brandon Lee

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.

Brandon Lee

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.

Brandon Lee

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

Brandon Lee

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

Brandon Lee

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

Brandon Lee

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.

Brandon Lee

For what level of mediocrity will you settle?

Brandon Lee

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.

Brandon Lee

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.

Brandon Lee