1. Bruce Lee was born in the year of the dragon (1940), at the hour of the dragon (between 6:00AM and 8:00AM).
2. He trained the actor Steve McQueen in
martial arts.
3. Lee could throw grains of rice into the air and catch them with
chopsticks.
4. In 2005, a bronze statue was
unveiled in Hong Kong
to mark what would have been Bruce Lee’s 65th birthday.
5. Bruce’s hand
assaults against rival Bob Wall in Enter The Dragon
were so fast during filming that the camera speed had to be increased
in order to successfully see them on the screen.
6. Growing up, Bruce was very near-sighted, and wore thick glasses.
He
switched to contact lenses after his acting career
took off.
7. Bruce was an
accomplished dancer and a Hong Kong Cha Cha champion.
8. To
demonstrate his speed, Bruce Lee would invite a person to hold a coin and close their hand.
Lee would take the coin before the hand closed and could even
swap the coin for another.
9. Bruce Lee once told
composer, Lalo Schifrin, that he often trained to his ‘Mission Impossible’
theme. Schifrin also composed the music to Lee’s movie, ‘Enter the Dragon’.
10. Bruce Lee once said "If I should die tomorrow, I will
have no
regrets. I did what I wanted to do. You can't expect more from life."