I Am Bruce Lee Page #2

It's really pure.

It breaks through to every culture,

every language, every colour.

It's all about getting respect back,

you know.

If you're gonna hurt me, you're gonna

have to earn it, motherf***er.

I was the youngest

of three boys.

I got obsessed

with Bruce Lee and martial arts.

I wanted to kick my brothers' asses

and prove my worthiness.

When a good fight breaks out,

you can't help but be excited.

You can't help but show emotion.

It took a while, but as many times

as each of my brothers beat me up,

each one of them got one ass-kicking

from me and that was it.

I didn't do so well talking sh*t back,

so I don't see the point in talking

about it. Let's just go there.

But then you feel bad and embarrassed

afterwards, "That was childish. "

"I could have handled that better. "

But you also feel good.

If you couldn't get laid,

you got in a fight.

Let me punch this ugly motherf***er.

In Youngstown.

It was a nice place to live.

Fighting has taken over

my mind and my being.

It's not what I do. It's who I am.

My father told me fighters are born,

not made. Bruce Lee was a born fighter.

When you do punch,

now I'm leaning forward a little bit,

hoping not to hurt any camera angle.

I mean, you gotta put the whole hip

into it and snap it

and get all your energy in there,

and make this into a weapon.

When Bruce Lee was a young boy,

maybe 13 or 14, training in wing chun,

they found out that Bruce Lee

had Caucasian blood.

- I believe it's one fourth German.

- Well?

The other students said he shouldn't

be allowed to learn wing chun

because he wasn't purely Chinese.

When you're by yourself

and no one wants to be there

because they didn't wanna get beat up,

it's the loneliest feeling in the world.

One thing I have

definitely learned in my life

is that I do have a bad temper.

A violent temper, in fact.

His whole life is sort of

this play between East and West.

He hated the oppression

of little people

which he saw everywhere,

in the Japanese occupation,

the Boxer Rebellion,

the foreign powers going into China.

He just thought all of that was wrong.

To live the life he wanted

to live, he had to fight for it.

He really had to put it out there

and really walk the walk.

I mean, it is easy for me

to put on a show

and be cocky

and be flooded with a cocky feeling

and then feel like pretty cool

and all that.

Or I can make all kinds

of phoney things, you see what I mean?

Blinded by it. Or I can show you

some really fancy movement.

But to express oneself honestly,

not lying to oneself,

and to express myself honestly,

that, my friend, is...

In some ways

it's the total opposite of anger.

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