I Am Bruce Lee Page #11

trying to make it bigger and crazier

than it needed to be.

It is my wish that the newspapers

and the people of Hong Kong

will stop speculating

on the circumstances

surrounding my husband's death.

Please remember him

for his genius, his art

and the magic he brought

to every one of us.

Of course I was going to go

and see his film and applaud him

and be with people who admired him.

That was always my thought in my head,

is, "I need to do this for Bruce. "

She really is this incredible woman

with just great dignity

and grace under fire.

It was great to see Bruce again,

but only a month later my memories

were very fresh anyway, you know.

It was more pain than joy at the time.

Everybody said all these years,

you know,

he had an allergic reaction

to marijuana, he had a brain aneurysm.

The most important thing

is how he lived.

Every time you see him,

it's still emotional.

We miss the friend.

I'm now 74, but there really

has not ever been a day

that I haven't thought about him

at least once, maybe twice

or three times or four times

or five times through the day.

There's nobody who's gonna replace

Bruce Lee, not while you or I are alive.

It just ain't gonna happen.

This genius passes away

way before his time.

We have to be thankful

we had him for 32 years.

Bruce Lee was just a symbol

of everything

that every little boy wanted to be.

You have offended my family

and you have...

Disgraced the Shaolin temple.

Whoo!

The most important thing

he's ever done and accomplished

is bringing people together.

Bruce brought...

he brought cultures together.

People remember him

for being powerful beyond measure,

you know, for being limitless,

for standing for things

when people crucified him.

It didn't matter what colour you are,

what country you came from,

you were a Bruce Lee fan.

He's the man. He's the truth.

And it was amazing

how he connected so many people.

Not just martial arts,

but people from all walks of life.

If Bruce was here today,

he'd be on Dancing with the Stars

and he'd win it, hands down.

Doggone it,

such is the basic need of a human being,

I might as well enjoy it

before I kick the bucket,

like that type of an attitude.

We remember Bruce Lee today

because he was so much fun to watch.

He was like a mythological hero.

My strength flowed

through Bruce to me, so...

He left me with that gift.

The idea is running water

never grows stale,

so you gotta just keep on flowing.

He didn't compromise.

People really felt that presence about

him and felt that influence from him

and they just wanna somehow

connect with him.

When people try to relate to him,

they do say,

"That's my Bruce Lee.

That's what I connect with. "

When I watch Bruce Lee, I am Bruce Lee.

- Dragon whips his tail.

- Dragon whips his tail.

I watch Bruce Lee, you watch Bruce Lee

and we're both being Bruce Lee.

Bruce would want us to recognise

that he honestly expressed himself,

that he did not bow down

to any sacred cows.

To express oneself honestly,

not lying to oneself,

and to express myself honestly,

that, my friend, is very hard to do.

He would urge others

to examine your life, you know,

see how things fit you personally,

find your strength, take a stab at life,

don't just sit back

and take it easy, you know?

That's not what life is about.

It's even more fun to see him now

when I look back, you know.

Oh! What an amazing young man he was.

Do you think of yourself

as Chinese or North American?

You know what I want to think of myself?

As a human being.

Because, I mean, I don't wanna

sound like "as Confucius say",

but under the sky, under the heaven,

man, there is but one family.

It just so happened, man,

that people are different.

Empty your mind.

Be formless, shapeless.

Like water.

Now, you put water into a cup,

it becomes the cup.

Put water into a bottle,

it becomes the bottle.

You put it in a teapot,

it becomes the teapot.

Now, water can flow or it can crash.

Be water, my friend.

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