Memorable quotes for
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993) More at IMDbPro »

Bruce Lee: Don't touch me!
Punk: Or what?
Bruce Lee: Or I'll touch you back.

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Linda Emery: A philosophy major? Now, what can you do with a philosophy major?
Bruce Lee: You can think deep thoughts about being unemployed.

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[Bruce Lee in a wheelchair]
Vivian Emery: How are you feeling, Mr. Lee?
Bruce Lee: Oh, like half man, half car.

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Linda Lee: All these years later, people still wonder about how he died. I prefer to remember how he lived.

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Bruce Lee: The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

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Linda Emery: Stop whining and start fighting.

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Vivian Emery: The world needs hamburgers - it doesn't need judo.

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Bruce Lee: Be like water.

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Bruce Lee: Emotion can be the enemy.

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Bruce Lee: It's not strength that matters, it's focus.

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Bruce Lee: I'll beat any man in this room in 60 seconds.

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[Bruce has been told he has to leave Hong Kong]
Bruce Lee: This is a joke right? You're joking.

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Bruce Lee: I'm no bastard, I'm Bruce Lee!

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Bruce Lee: Don't go anywhere, hon! It'll be over in sixty seconds.

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[Bruce Lee and Bill Krieger are discussing Lee's next series]
Bill Krieger: Chinese immigrant wanders the land.
Bruce Lee: He's a good guy. A hero.
Bill Krieger: Of course he's a hero; he's the star of the show. He wanders the land, solving problems. Every week, he solves a problem.
Bruce Lee: With no gun. Just his hands.
Bill Krieger: That's good. That's great. No gun. He's looking for something...
Bruce Lee: His father! He's lost his father who came ahead of him.
Bill Krieger: No, no, not his father. The father thing has been done to death. He's searching for his brother.
Bruce Lee: Good.
Bill Krieger: Searching for his brother.
Bruce Lee: He never finds him.
Bill Krieger: Well, not until the fifth year, anyway.

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[Bill Krieger and Bruce Lee are discussing Lee's next series]
Bruce Lee: Ok, so he wanders the land, searching for his brother, solving problems, with no gun...
Bill Krieger: And, he has something noone else has ever seen...
Bruce Lee, Bill Krieger: [shouting together] KUNG FU!
Bill Krieger: Starring Bruce Lee.
Bruce Lee: Uh huh... He remembers what he was taught in the old country, by his teacher... and teaches people his culture.
Bill Krieger: After he's kicked the shit out of everybody.

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Bruce Lee: [Watching Linda & Vivian reunited by Brandon] Brandon, you're a strong one. Only you could do this.

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Bruce Lee: [after beating up a hustler at the gym] Sorry about your father. Those were Koreans, I'm American.

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Johnny Sun: [wanting to challenge Bruce to a 60 second fight] I've beaten him before, I will beat him again.

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Luke Sun: [coming onto the film set of "The Big Boss"] You. You've beaten my brother, he ca'nt walk straight, he ca'nt talk right. You've dishonored my family.

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[last lines]
Linda Lee: Three weeks before the opening of Enter the Dragon, the movie that would bring him into international fame, Bruce fell into a mysterious coma and died. He was 32. Thousands of fans have gathered in Hong Kong for the funeral. I buried him in America so he can be close to us. There are many people that want to know the way he died, I want to remember the way he lived.

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Bruce Lee: [explaining why he is going to the United States] I'm excited to come to America
[holds up a poster of James Dean]
Bruce Lee: James Dean, French fries, the skies the limit. That's what they said.

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Bill Krieger: [after Bruce's 60 second fight] Hey, there.
Bruce Lee: Yes?
Bill Krieger: You look pretty fast out there, kid.
Jerome Sprout: No. He was too slow, and he took too long.
Bill Krieger: [to Bruce] You looked fast to me. Can you do some of that in front of a camera? You see, I am a producer.
Jerome Sprout: [not believing a word Kreiger is saying] Right, and "I'm" Marvin Gaye.
[laughs]

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Principal Elder: [Bruce brings in the message that the Elder sent him] Bruce, I know that you like to be called Bruce. You are violating the martial arts code.
Bruce Lee: What for?
Principal Elder: You are teaching our secrets to whites and blacks.
Bruce Lee: I teach who wants to learn.
Principal Elder: Bruce, we do a lot, but we do not teach our secrets to our enemy.
Bruce Lee: They are not the enemy. They just don't know us, we've been so closed for so long. They don't know the beauty of our culture.
Principal Elder: No, Bruce. You are ordered to stop teaching the Quai Lo.
Bruce Lee: Or else what?
Principal Elder: Or we will settle this by combat.
Bruce Lee: I'll challenge it.

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Bruce Lee: [Has Johnny Sun pinned down] Do you give up? Do you give up?
[yelling]
Bruce Lee: Do you give up?
Johnny Sun: I give up. I give up.

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Jerome Sprout: [Before the combat dispute] I scooped him out. His name is Johnny Sun. He is formiddable, he is a killer. 2 people tried to rob him last year, one went to the hospital, the one with the gun, went to a funeral home.

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Vivian Emery: Well, I don't want to rain on your parade Mr. Lee. But the world needs hamburgers, not Judo.
Bruce Lee: Kung Fu.
Vivian Emery: Whatever. But what about children, that's what marriage is about, children, and what will they be? They won't be white, and they won't be oriental. They'll be some kind of half-breed and will not be accpted by either side.
Bruce Lee: But, they'll be American. Linda's American, I'm an American.
Vivian Emery: No. you're an American citizen Mr. Lee.

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Bruce Lee: [Coming Home] Hello.
Linda Lee: What were you're doing.
Bruce Lee: I'm working on the Game of Death.
Linda Lee: Bruce.
Bruce Lee: I don't have a choice, we've been through this before.
Linda Lee: Maybe you don't, but I do. I'm taking the kids home for a while
Bruce Lee: This "is" home.
Linda Lee: No. Here is where we watch you work.
Bruce Lee: I know all about America, a mountain of gold, we are so good. But you can't believe that, you gotta read the small print.
Linda Lee: This is place is eating us up, can't you see that Bruce?
Bruce Lee: given us a life. Here I am somebody, I'm special. Back there, I'm just another 2-bit, no-nothing dishwasher from a fishy-stinking restaurant
[pushes stuff off his dresser in anger]
Bruce Lee: [Mimicking a Chinese accent] Hello, hello little white man. Try some from column A or some from column B.
[Braks his closet door in anger]
Bruce Lee: Who am I, huh? Who am I? Tell me who am I.
Linda Lee: I don't know who the hell you are anymore. Do you?

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