The Best Ip Man Quotes

Miura: [after witnessing Ip Man single-handedly defeat ten Japanese fighters at once] What's your name?
Ip: I'm just a Chinese man.

Ip: [Facing the Northerner Ip Man adopts his combat stance with an unsettling mixture of mettle and serenity] Wing Chun, Ip Man.

Ip: [hits Lei] Traitor!
Captain: Why am I a traitor? Their deaths have got nothing to do with me. I'm just an interpreter. I need to scrape a living too!
Ip: Scrape a living? You watch your countrymen get beaten to death. Where's your dignity?
[walks away]
Captain: I don't have any. You do. You have lots of it. If you have the guts, go beat them! Beat as many as you can! I'm an interpreter, not a traitor...
[throws book to the ground and shouts in Japanese]
Captain: I'm a Chinese man!