Stunts Quotes

I've got to be active in life, and it's the same when I'm doing stunts in a movie: I'll do anything.

As much as they'll let me I do my own stunts and I do all my own fighting.

Actors say they do their own stunts for the integrity of the film but I did them because they looked like a lot of fun.

The studio thought I was crazy to perform all of my own fencing stunts, but I loved it.

I do some of my stunts for the things I have learned. But if it is for something I have never learned, then I use a double.

While I will always have the utmost respect for the superhuman out-of-bounds freestyle and extreme stunts that seem to continually progress beyond our imaginable limits, my highest appreciation goes out to the simple rider who's out there just for the experience.

For me the stunts are so cool, they're one of my favourite things when we're doing the film.

I've definitely become much more aware of physical stunts.

It's the board I had a problem with. I could totally handle being in the water and stuff. I came here to do my own stunts. Water! Ocean! Action! Big waves! That water, that water has tamed me. You can feel that the world is connected to it.

It's not like I was trying to be sexy but I had to get fit because I had to be able to do stunts. Also I wanted that, if Bond took his clothes off, he looked like a man who did what he did, which was kill people for a living. I thought the only way to do that was to work out and get fit and buff and get physically into shape.

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 don't see the risk, I enjoy performing stunts, and I don't get scared.

A lot of the motivation for doing the 'Make 'Em Laugh' on SNL was because I had just finished shooting 'Inception,' where there were zero-gravity scenes and I got into really good shape and was training and did all these stunts. Coming off of that, that instilled me with the confidence to do 'Make 'Em Laugh.'

Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.

I don't get a chance to do many of my own stunts on 'Buffy' - none of us do. We have amazing stunt people who make us all look really believable and really good.

I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that the actor's really doing it.

Planet of the Apes was a gigantic challenge, making the clothes work so people could do stunts and action in the clothes. I really learned a lot about that in that movie.

As time went on, I got envious and wanted to do a lot of stunts myself.

We did many of our own stunts. We had our hands full. In fact, the roles were physically demanding.

It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal.

I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.

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

I never got hurt when I was in Morocco doing all the horse riding and my own stunts. But on the last day on the last shot I slid off my horse and landed on my bottom. I did not get hurt but it was very embarrassing.

I love doing the stunts. It's as simple as that.

A couple days before the stunts, if I'm doing something particularly dangerous, I will go over every worst-case scenario in my head, like this could happen, this could happen, this could happen, this could happen. I try to think about that to where it's ingrained in me.

I do about 90 percent of my own stunts, and the things I can't do for insurance reasons, like swinging out of a flying helicopter, I wouldn't want to do anyway.

If I did everything, I probably wouldn't be here talking to you. There aren't too many people who can actually double me, so I do most of my stunts though.

I don't do any amount of stunts.

Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling.

I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won't let me do. Like they won't set fire to me. They won't like let me jump off a 20 story building. There are certain big stunts that it's just impossible to get insurance to let me do, but for the most part I'd say I do probably 75% of my stuff.