Stunt Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

I was a stunt man for 35 years.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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