Brandon Lee Net Worth

Brandon Lee's Quotes

• I don't want to be remembered as the son of Bruce Lee.
• I always had a pretty good knack for raising hell.
• Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you cannot conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, or five times more? Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.
• [About The Crow (1994)] "It's a story about justice for victims".
• [About The Crow (1994)] "I've done other films with violence in them, but I must say I've never done anything where I felt the violence was as justified as it is in this...This is justice".

Interesting Facts about Brandon Lee

1. Son of Bruce Lee and Linda Lee Cadwell.
2. Killed while filming the movie The Crow (1994) by a projectile shot from a gun firing blanks.
3. Lived in Hong Kong for a couple of years as a little boy.
4. Spoke Cantonese.
5. Was engaged to Eliza Hutton. Prior to his death.
6. Older brother of Shannon Lee.
7. Interred at Lake View Cemetery, Seattle, Washington, USA.
8. His Chinese star sign is the Dragon. He was born on Chinese New Year's eve, last day of the dragon.
9. Was first asked to play the role of Bruce Lee in his father's biopic. The role was later given to Jason Scott Lee.
10. Was in talks with filmmakers about making Rapid Fire 2. There was already a sequel planned to Rapid Fire as part of a 3 picture deal with Fox, which was going to be called 'Simon Says'. This was remarkably later adapted into Die Hard 3.
11. Was set to be married to Eliza Hutton in Ensenada, Mexico on April 17, 1993.
12. Dedication at the end of Lee's last film, The Crow (1994), reads "For Brandon and Eliza (Hutton)".
13. Brandon's father was of Chinese, and some European (usually described as German), descent. Brandon's mother, who is caucasian, has English, Irish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Dutch ancestry. Brandon was born with blond hair. As he aged, his hair color changed to brown.
14. The apple never falls far from the tree: Brandon played the character "Jake Lo" in Rapid Fire (1992); his father Bruce Lee played the character "Billy Lo" in Game of Death (1978).
15. Nephew of Jan-Fai Lee
16. Grandson of actor Hoi-Chuen Lee.
17. Growing up in Bruce's shadow wasn't always easy for the younger Lee. As a child, Brandon was about to sign up with a local martial-arts studio...until he noticed a large poster of his dad on the wall. Brandon ran from the dojo in tears. Later, as a teenager, he kicked out of two different high-schools (once, after an "altercation" with the vice-principal) & dropping out of a third. After giving up on high school, Lee took some time to clear his head and spent a year hitchhiking around the United States in '82 before giving high school one last shot by writing and passing a high school equivalency test.
18. He was a troubled youngster but an outstanding surrogate-parent. When his actress-sister Shannon Lee was arrested for underage-joyriding in their mom's car, Brandon sat Shannon down and gave her a classic "It's Okay To Have Fun But Don't Ever Take It Too Far" lecture. Indeed, Shannon claims that if Brandon had lived to see her wedding day, he would have walked her down the aisle.
19. He was offered the chance to play his dad in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993). Understandably, he turned it down so he could star in The Crow (1994). The film was later dedicated to his memory.
20. Brandon eventually started to study martial arts around the age of 19, and because he was naturally coordinated he was able to pick it up quickly. He studied at the Inosanto Academy with Dan Inosanto and picked up proficiency in Wing Chun, Shaolin Kung-Fu, Muay Thai and Jeet Kune Do, and while he enjoyed martial arts it was not his life's passion. Brandon studied martial arts because he kept being asked to do action films, but ultimately wanted to be a real actor and not be stuck in action roles.