Top 100 Quotes About Stunts
#1. I would like to be able to do as many of my own stunts where I can.
Joel Kinnaman
#2. In 'Sisters of War,' I got to do one of my own stunts. Running out of the building because the Japanese were firing, with all these little spark plugs are going off, looking like explosions and bullets flying down. That was really fun.
Sarah Snook
#3. We were doing the dance routine and I dislocated my knee. I've been doing stunts for a long time and it's kind of weird that I'd dislocate my knee just dancing.
Verne Troyer
#4. Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling.
Christopher Parker
#5. The ads all call me fearless, but that's just publicity. Anyone who thinks I'm not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.
Jackie Chan
#6. After doing a bunch of movies as a stuntman, I realized that being a stuntman, you are in the shadow of the actor, and they don't get to see your true ability, and I wanted people to see that it was really me doing those stunts, and it was really my true abilities.
Tony Jaa
#7. The art of stunt-making is not about falling down; it's about getting the shot. Creating stunts is creating heroes.
Chad Stahelski
#8. I try to stay in the best physical shape that I can because I do most of my own stunts. It looks amazing if you can do it, but I don't advocate it because you always get injured.
Raymond Cruz
#9. My favorite actor is Steve McQueen, and he did his own stunts.
Christian Kane
#10. If I can avoid doing stunts, I will. I don't want to die just for a movie. It's not worth it.
Eva Green
#11. Early on, I used to think it was really cool and macho to jump out of the car and tackle the bad guy. But then when you see the stunts in the movie, you realize it could've been a lady in a poncho.
Charlie Sheen
#12. 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.
Michelle Rodriguez
#13. When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal.
Yvonne Craig
#14. 'Minute to Win It' is a variation on a game show from the 1950s called 'Beat the Clock,' in which contestants won washing machines and fox stoles by doing such pointless stunts as catching a tennis ball in a paper cup or knocking a hat off one's wife's head with a whipped-cream spritzer.
Tom Shales
#15. I like Jackie [Chan] because I've been a fan of Jackie's forever. He's broken every bone in his body for his commitment and dedication to doing his own stunts. So he's the real deal.
Jason Statham
#16. When you're doing superhero stunts, the objective is to look as cool as humanly possible.
J. August Richards
#18. I don't do my own stunts, but I do my own fighting. I don't consider fighting to be a stunt.
Liam Neeson
#19. Do you have any coffee?' ... 'It stunts my growth, and I'm afraid of death.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#20. I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
Victoria Pratt
#21. We did many of our own stunts. We had our hands full. In fact, the roles were physically demanding.
Mary-Kate Olsen
#22. I'm in professional wrestling, which is what I do for a living. I coordinate stunts. I memorize them.
Kurt Angle
#23. I've always loved the Bond pictures. I have watched every single one. Movies don't get bigger or better than Bond, so I knew this was my opportunity to do a massive action picture with outrageous stunts.
Lee Tamahori
#24. Get stuffed, don't you have more publicity stunts to pull?" Bones shot back. "How about chatting with another writer who can smear your name into greater popularity?"
"What, did Anne Rice not return your calls, mate?" Vlad asked scathingly. "Jealousy is such an ugly trait.
Jeaniene Frost
#25. I don't do stunts - I do running, jumping and falling down. After 25 years I know exactly what I'm doing.
Harrison Ford
#26. I've spent my life doing action films and most of my own stunts, so my teeth have been knocked out along the way. It happened so frequently that I can't even remember where I lost most of them.
James Cosmo
#27. When am doing stunts, I had lots of cuts on my body because of the actions. Even though everybody takes care of me, I still get hurt.
Aster Argent
#28. Service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion, it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.
Mahatma Gandhi
#29. Film and theater are about misdirection and making the audience see something. I find it interesting. One of the things we do in 'True Blood' is shoot all of our stunts in camera. Instead of doing some kind of visual effect, we try to make it happen.
Stephen Moyer
#30. The main thing is to keep it simple, keep it real, be honest and pull no stunts. You can't forget where you started and came from.
Trick Daddy
#31. As soon as I get time, I want to start to do some fight training. I tried a little boxing once with my personal trainer back in L.A. - it's such a good workout, and it's a good skill to have, especially in my industry, since sometimes you have to do stunts and fight scenes.
Katia Winter
#32. I try to do as many of my own stunts as possible. If you keep on taking yourself out of the role you play, you lose the thread of the character.
Willem Dafoe
#33. The stunts on the ground I can do, but I've never been good with heights.
Ryan Reynolds
#34. 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.
Colleen Atwood
#36. I love action and I love doing my own stunts. I love that sort of thing.
Serinda Swan
#37. 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.
Jet Li
#38. It looks better when you do your own stunts, because seeing somebody's face when they're doing them is fun for the audience.
Adrianne Palicki
#39. Of course I do my own stunts. And I also do my own lying.
Roger Moore
#40. Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.
Mads Mikkelsen
#41. I've got bits falling off me. I'm not made of rubber. That's from film stunts. Every single injury I have is related to a movie. I know that sounds fundamentally embarrassing.
Russell Crowe
#42. I always think to shoot action scenes is not really about the stunts. It's more about an expression and about imagination.
Wong Kar-Wai
#43. 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.
Verne Troyer
#44. Acting is my number one, but dancing will always be a part of who I am and in my heart. I love doing stunts when they are a part of my acting.
Caity Lotz
#45. Progress is not made by pulling off a series of stunts. Each step has to be regulated. A man cannot expect to progress without thinking.
Henry Ford
#46. I love doing all of my own stunts. Anything. Even if they are telling me, 'No, no, no! You can't do that!' I'll do it. Like crashing my car through the gate, climbing up the building, kicking in a window ... I love doing all of that stuff.
Christa Campbell
#48. It's so important for me to do my own stunts. The sense of achievement is so immense. But the studios don't want to take the risk.
Michelle Yeoh
#49. I felt like it was inevitable that I was going to fail in life and die young. So I was frantically scrambling to document my stunts and pack my message into a bottle. I thought maybe I could be discovered after I'd died, like Van Gogh.
Steve-O
#50. I work in film, TV, commercials and do live PR stunts for companies. A lot of my time is spent reading scripts and looking at designing sequences, speaking to directors and producers about how they want the sequences to look, how they will work and budgeting those stunts.
Steve Truglia
#51. I've always got into stunts; even at drama school, I was falling down trap doors, and swinging in on ropes.
Thomas Howes
#53. When I was doing stunts, I had lots of cuts on my body because of the chain. Even though everybody took care of me, I still got hurt.
Rain
#54. Something happened to me and I became really successful at something at a young age, and that stunts you in every other aspect of your life because you feel like that's what you're good at and so that's what you need to stay in.
Kristen Stewart
#55. Any time I think out loud, 'I can't believe this is my job,' and remember I am a very lucky duck. Whether marshalling hundreds of zombies, doing crazy stunts or shooting big music numbers, I just feel fortunate to have made my passion my vocation.
Steven Soderbergh
#56. The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.
Wendy O. Williams
#57. 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.
Oded Fehr
#58. The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.
John C. Maxwell
#59. I always do my own stunts, as much as possible. I'm a little stubborn about it.
Laura Vandervoort
#60. There are ways of doing stunts without me. I get no pleasure putting my life in jeopardy just to get the shot. Life is too short for that nonsense.
Eva Green
#61. I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.
Philippe Petit
#62. I do love doing stunts; I was in a film called 'The Quiet Ones,' which was quite a spooky film, and I had to be hung upside down, which was good.
Erin Richards
#63. Broadway was life-changing because it pushes you mentally, physically, emotionally - every way that you can be pushed. It makes you feel like there's nothing you can't do. It's like doing your own stunts.
Keke Palmer
#64. I try to keep my religion and politics separate. But I do prefer my stunts on Sundays. "I know you have a lot to worry about during the week, Jesus, but can you just watch over me, keep me alive, that day?"
Steve Trotter
#65. I'm an athletic actor. I'm known for my action; I'm a guy who does my own stunts on screen.
Akshay Kumar
#66. My parents meant well, but the road to Hell is paved with publicity stunts.
Chuck Palahniuk
#67. If you don't finish a day of stunts with a lot of bruises, you feel like you haven't done it right.
Theo James
#68. The funny thing is, the older I get, the less I enjoy talking when I act. I don't like talking anymore. I like behavior. All of the running and gunning, and the fights and the stunts, is just awesome fun.
Grant Bowler
#69. Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
Damon Galgut
#70. I was in 'Rent,' for God's sake. The closest we came to stunts was dancing on a table.
Jesse L. Martin
#71. Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the growth of ideas. It also stunts the act of questioning, and it does this by pushing the idea that you have to have faith - and that nothing has to be proven.
Joe Rogan
#72. Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.
J. August Richards
#73. 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.
Nicolas Cage
#74. I think there is some truth to publicity stunts that might get you press like that. It's so hilarious because now every time I walk by the tabloid stands and look at the tabloids it makes me kind of wonder like what's really going on.
Simon Rex
#75. I'd love to do an action movie. Something with lots of stunts. Anything fast and dangerous and involving guns.
Hayley Atwell
#76. I really love the independent movies and I just think that sometimes when they throw a lot of money into it and a lot of special effects and a lot of stunts that you lose the connection, the human connection and I personally love movies that are about the human connection.
Jane Seymour
#77. dollars." "Millions? I can see your stunts for free on YouTube." Alma shook
Angela Cervantes
#79. 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.
LL Cool J
#80. I'm kind of a tomboy, so I've always had a soft spot for action movies. I would love to do one of those, doing my own stunts and training.
Cassi Thomson
#81. The fear of rejection really kind of stunts your growth as a person. I mean, it's like a friend of mine says, who cares if you fail? Who cares if you fail? It's like babies try to get up and walk all the time and they keep falling down. If we just gave up, we'd all be crawling around.
John Rzeznik
#82. 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.
Emma Caulfield
#83. 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.
Nick Stahl
#84. So there was always a stunt coordinator on those films that was from Stunts Unlimited and I was just one of the young warriors from Stunts Unlimited that got to be a part of it because it was a big show and they needed a lot of guys.
David R. Ellis
#85. I've done things to my body, mechanically, that I'll never do again. I've done stunts that I shouldn't have done 10, 11, 12 times. I've broken a ton of bones on sets.
Ryan Reynolds
#86. 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.
Johnny Knoxville
#87. My first call is always to my dad. It's really rad. What had initially drove my dad and me apart - all my stunts and antics - has brought us together, closer than we've ever been. My dad's been a huge part of my team.
Steve-O
#88. Elevate yourself away from anything or anyone who stunts your growth by distraction, you will never get round to watering your own plant if you wait for there approval to do so. Before you know it there garden will be full and yours would never have been started.
Keysha Jade
#89. I've definitely become much more aware of physical stunts.
Lucy Liu
#90. Because I did gymnastics for such a long time, it's allowed me to stay really physical, and with the krav maga and all that, I can actually do a lot of my own stunts.
Serinda Swan
#91. I love doing the stunts. It's as simple as that.
Gerard Butler
#92. This "Not Today" attitude of yours is a cancer. Cancer of the character. It stunts your growth.
David Mitchell
#93. As much as they'll let me I do my own stunts and I do all my own fighting.
Jeffrey Donovan
#94. I'm very physical. I grew up boxing. I've done almost all of my own stunts in movies and in television.
Raymond Cruz
#95. As time went on, I got envious and wanted to do a lot of stunts myself.
Lloyd Bridges
#96. It was a tough movie to make, with lots of stunts and injuries and craziness and night shooting and dust.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#97. I do most of my own stunts because the stunt guys show me how.
Casper Van Dien
#98. The more important a call to action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel about answering it. But to yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.
Steven Pressfield
#99. I know a lot of people dread going to work every morning, but my work is playing pretend and doing stunts and screaming. It's a lot of fun and I get to play dress up. Every day is exciting and different and new and cool. I couldn't be more grateful.
Nina Dobrev
#100. I don't see the risk, I enjoy performing stunts, and I don't get scared.
Ajay Devgan
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