Top 33 Shannon Lee Quotes

My dad didn’t see limitations in himself or in other people. He did what he did his way and left behind an extremely unique footprint.

I just need to be on the path to my own self-cultivation, my own self-actualisation.

Being Bruce Lee’s kid, everyone wants you to be an action-film star. I took martial arts, and it’s fun to do those types of movies, but I wanted to act, not fight.

One of the interesting things about my father was that what you see on-camera is a lot of what he was like in real life.

Our goal is simple. It is to continue to inspire people through my father’s legacy. There is a lot of value in continuing to put that energy out into the consciousness.

If you take the yin-yang, it has a piece of the other inside itself. You can’t be too much of one thing and be balanced.

I have a degree in vocal performance, I’m a classically trained singer, and I studied musical theatre.

It is much easier to imitate something else that you know is accepted and loved than it is to look inside and follow your own compass, because you have no idea if you’ll be accepted, if you’ll be right, if your ideas are good, if your way is a path to success.

I started studying Jeet Kune Do in my early 20s.

We preserve the legacy of my father through an education approach. We award scholarships. We do classes at schools about my father’s philosophy and life.

My father chose the yellow-and-black tracksuit that he wore in ‘Game of Death’ to represent his idea of ‘the style of no style.’

I’ve dedicated a lot of my life to running the Bruce Lee businesses and continuing his legacy. Some people say I’m doing that to make money or to emulate him. That couldn’t be further from the truth; I do it because I’m inspired by his message.

There’s so much I want to do. But after all I’ve been through, I realize nothing is more important to me than family.

Being in relationship with others helps us know ourselves better.

I don’t think that anyone could try to be my father, I think he was extremely unique, and if anybody were to try to act like him and pull off the action in the same way, that would be a mistake. Trying to give a Bruce Lee-esque performance would be an epic failure.

The struggle through the grief was a huge growing process for me. There were gifts that came from it. I learned a lot about myself. I got into a mode very much like my father’s own mode of seeking – seeking solutions, seeking teachers, seeking information – to try to alleviate my own suffering.

My father was a rather active guy, and he was often engaged in something if not physically, then mentally.

In my 20s, when I was acting, I probably had a little bit of a personality crisis in the sense that everybody related to me as Bruce Lee’s daughter.

The thing that my father was absolutely brilliant at doing was being Bruce Lee. Nobody was able to do what he did or be like he was.

I’m definitely the lazy one in the family.

My father was an entertainer, and he knew what he was doing.

At the movies, when I see Sandra Bullock or Winona Ryder, I think, ‘I can do that!’

When I have struggled with things like being Bruce Lee’s daughter, it’s his words that have guided me: his words that said that I just need to have faith in myself, believe in myself, and express myself.

The way I know my father is not through media. The way I know my father is in number of different ways. It’s through the people who knew him well, his friends, my family. It’s also through his own words, because he wrote voluminously.

The tenets of Jeet Kune Do are simplicity, directness, and freedom, and it’s meant to be a style that is efficient and non-telegraphic; you can’t see it coming.

If I can learn how to rely on my own strength, I can see the answers to my problems usually lie right there, within the problem itself.

My father didn’t compete ever in martial arts tournaments because they were not real. They were tag tournaments or touch tournaments, which he thought was bizarre and not really what the martial arts is about.

I will say that my father loved to teach and was a very gifted teacher. He probably would have been an excellent coach and trainer.

I think the thing that I think about the most when I consider my father’s philosophies is attaining that third stage of performance where you no longer have to think about what you’re doing; you’ve worked long and hard enough to be able to have your body respond when you want it without your mind getting in the way.

I had an acting career for a little while back in the ’90s. I had gotten into that because I was interested in acting, but I was not really as centered as I needed to be to fully pursue that career, and I was doing some films I thought were not of the best quality.

Not everybody knows I’m Bruce Lee’s daughter.

My father was prolific when it came to writing: day-timers, journals. He wrote on pieces of loose-leaf paper that he held on to, and he wrote in spiral notebooks.

I’ve had people hang around me because I’m Bruce Lee’s daughter, and it’s kind of a blow. You start to ask yourself, ‘Who am I?’, ‘What’s valuable about me?’, ‘Is what’s valuable about me that I’m Bruce Lee’s daughter?’