Bruce Lee: I am now....I am honestly saying this, okay? Yes, I have been very successful, okay?
Pierre Berton: yeah....
Bruce Lee: but I mean, I think the word "star" is....I mean I do not look upon myself as a star. I really don't. I mean believe me, man, when I say it. I mean I'm not saying it because....
Pierre Berton: what are you gonna do? Let's get back to the question.
Bruce Lee: ok.

Pierre Berton: Are you going to stay in Hong Kong and be famous, or are you gonna go to the United States and be famous, or are you going to try to eat your cake and have it too?
Bruce Lee: I am going to do both because, you see, I have already made up my mind, that in the United States, I think something about the oriental, I mean the true oriental, should be shown.
Pierre Berton: Hollywood sure has packed, hasn't it?
Bruce Lee: you better believe it man. I mean it's always that pigtail, bouncing around, "chopchop," you know? With the eyes slanted and all that. And I think that's very, very out of date.
Pierre Berton: is it true that the first job you had was being cast as Charlie Chan's "number one son?"
Bruce Lee: yeah, "number one son."
Pierre Berton: they never made the movie?


Bruce Lee: no, no, no they were gonna make it into like a new Chinese James Bond type of a thing. Now that, you know, "the old man Chan is dead, Charlie is dead, I mean, and his son is carrying on."
Pierre Berton: oh I see. But they didn't do that.
Bruce Lee: no, bat man came along you see. Because and then everything was started to be going into that, you know, that kind of a thing.
Pierre Berton: like the green hornet?
Bruce Lee: yeah.
Pierre Berton: which you were in...but, is it....
Bruce Lee: By the way, I did a really terrible job in that, I have to say.
Pierre Berton: really? You didn't like yourself in that?