Could you afford to be trained by the Master? Bruce took on very few pupils—according to screenwriter and friend Stirling Silliphant, he had a training center in Los Angeles, with no signage or outside decorations. Stirling claimed that Bruce charged $250 an hour—that's close to $1,500 per hour in today's money.

"He didn't charge these prices just for the sake of charging, but to place value on his instruction," Silliphant said. "It was an Asian attitude—a way of showing that the lesson has worth, and the fee is merely the token of this, not the point of it." Among Bruce's most famous clients was Chuck Norris, who convinced Lee that high kicks could be valuable in combat.