Stunt Quotes

I remember hitting Sarah Michelle Gellar with a right hook during my first week on the job. It was awful. They usually pair actors with stunt doubles to avoid things like that.

I had professional stunt racers teaching me how to drive.

Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.

Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is.

I don't do my own stunts, but I do my own fighting. I don't consider fighting to be a stunt.

Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right.

There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne, the great master swordsman and brilliant stunt double.

I don't do stunts and I don't think many actors do. For an actor to say they do their own stunts I don't think is very respectful of the profession of stunt men and women.

I want to give back. I want to do all the things that will make me feel fulfilled. But whenever I do those things, people think it's a press stunt or something.

The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It's really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they're actually really happy, good- natured people.

I was a stunt man for 35 years.

I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth.

Well one of the times I did a stunt was in the devil's snare room and they lifted me up on a harness and a safety rope really, really high, and they just dropped me down into the devil's snare.

But I loved doing the physical stuff for 'Dredd.' I have to give a shout-out to the stunt team that I worked with.

Repetition on things like that becomes quite painful. If you do a stunt sometimes it can look like a stunt.

Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt.

I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work.

I've never been a popular person, but it doesn't matter. I have everything in my life that I want. I'm not a walking publicity stunt. I'm not an anarchist, or bitter. I'm not trying to be subversive. I just try to remain unguarded, unprotected by fear, and agents and publicists, and I feel comfortable that way.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

An actor would be foolish to do something that might hold up the picture, or more importantly incapacitate him. If an actor does do a stunt he needs to make sure a stunt man stands by to see that it's done correctly.

Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.

If I'm going to fly for more than twenty feet it's generally a good idea to get a stunt guy.

Since very early in my career, I have always did my own stunt fighting.

I don't remember the first stunt I ever did.

The scenes in the show were filmed with a crew of really excellent stunt jumpers, but we had the feel of the parachutes, so we could be more realistic in the roles.

As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.

One time they traded me for seven horses. Seven stunt horses.

I haven't done a lot of action movies, so it's kind of fun to get to do a lot of stunt work.

We don't move on in the stunt unless it looks like a hit. So when I see it on TV, I'm generally satisfied that people are going to buy it.