Shannon Lee

“I've studied martial arts, but of course I'm not anywhere near the level of my father. Still, people assume I'm a lethal weapon anyway!”

“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.”

“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.”

“My mother raised us out of the limelight and told us not to say we were Bruce Lee's children, so I had a normal childhood. I didn't run in Hollywood circles or go to premieres.”

“I'm definitely the lazy one in the family.”

“Not everybody knows I'm Bruce Lee's daughter.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“My father talked about training as being more about the human spirit than just about your muscles.”

“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.”

“Being in relationship with others helps us know ourselves better.”

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

“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.”

“I lost my father when I was four, so maybe that was always in the background. Losing my brother kicked it into overdrive. When you get to such an intense place of suffering, you either have the choice to continue suffering or figure a way not to.”

“Philosophical ideas and sayings are great. They give us a little boost, a nudge in the arm, a fire in the belly.”

“The Bruce Lee Action Museum will represent action in the sense that the word is not just used to mean action in the martial arts or films. It is really meant to be a much broader definition as far as taking action, my father's belief of self-actualization.”