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. Shannon Lee More Quotes by Shannon Lee More Quotes From Shannon Lee Scientifically, I know beginnings don’t exist. The world is made of energy, which is neither created nor destroyed. Everything she is was here before me. Everything she was will remain. Her existence touches both my past and my future at one point—infinity. Lifelines aren’t lines at all. They’re more like circles. It’s safe to start anywhere and the story will curve its way back to the starting point. Eventually. In other words, it doesn’t matter where I begin. It doesn’t change the end. Shannon Lee curves circles past Simply put: time is fluid. The faster your world spins out of control, the slower timer crawls. The more time you need, the less you're sure to get. It's all relative Shannon Lee fluid world needs Perception is a powerful tool. Shannon Lee powerful perception tools Please don't confuse love and logic ... They aren't even remotely related. Shannon Lee related please logic 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. Shannon Lee will meant-to-be action father I just need to be on the path to my own self-cultivation, my own self-actualisation. Shannon Lee need own my-own path There have been projects out there involving my father, but they've lacked a complete understanding of his philosophies and artistry. They haven't captured the essence of his beliefs in martial arts or storytelling. The only way to get audiences to understand the depth and uniqueness of my father is to generate our own material. Shannon Lee understand understanding father way 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. Shannon Lee dad unique people way Not everybody knows I'm Bruce Lee's daughter. Shannon Lee lee everybody daughter knows 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. Shannon Lee lie problems strength problem 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?' Shannon Lee yourself me you daughter 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. Shannon Lee my-life money truth life 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. Shannon Lee nobody doing like father I think, when people hear the word 'philosophy,' they think of Plato and a bunch of people sitting around in their robes pontificating about life and how it should be. But really, somebody who is an active philosopher should not only be thinking of these things but putting them into practice. Shannon Lee practice life people thinking 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. Shannon Lee loved will teacher father 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. Shannon Lee touch thought real father My father was an entertainer, and he knew what he was doing. Shannon Lee knew doing he father You have no idea how many bags of money I've had to turn down. But if something doesn't match up with our goals - if it's too violent, or even if it's just too boring - my father may have been a philosopher, but he was always an entertainer - we're not going to take the money. Shannon Lee goals you money father 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. Shannon Lee inside you one-thing too-much 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. Shannon Lee see you life father
