Top 304 Stunt Quotes & Sayings

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

My husband's a stunt man, and he dragged me to stunt driving school with him because I hate driving and he felt that it would help to make me feel more comfortable. And it did in certain ways, and in certain ways I'm still not.

I will do anything, and I do almost everything myself. But when there is something extra heinous to do, I have a great stunt double, Eddie Davenport, and a great stunt coordinator, Jeff Wolfe.

I couldn't sacrifice my heart for a publicity stunt.

I don't consider an actor a star if he's paid $20 million and grimaces in front of the camera and has a stunt man stand in for him. They may be fine actors, but they're not role models. The real stars are wearing body armor in 130-degree heat . . . They're getting shot at and they don't have any stunt doubles standing in for them.

I once said that CGI makes you less inventive. At the time I was bemoaning the loss of the practical stunt. If a stunt can be done practically and safely, I'd rather do it old-style.

Stunt people are amazing at what they do, but they're not actors.

It never occurred to me that being a stunt girl would get me recognized in any way, because the whole purpose of a stunt person is to not be known.

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

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

I'm not a stunt man. I'm not a dare devil...I'm an explorer.

The thing about being on a long-running series is that you get to know all the stunt men and the stunt coordinators, and they let you pretty much do everything you want, as long as they trust you.

Life is a publicity stunt. A shill. You've been had.

I worked every day. I never turned down a stunt.

I'm a great believer in stunt doubles. They do an amazing job.

When I was a young stunt guy the director would say: "You're useless..." But I wanted to be the best, I wanted to be a super stunt guy. That's how I built myself, because of martial arts and everything.

There's a huge amount of faith and confidence in the stunt team.

I was in Australia in 1983 and did a stunt in a lion's cage.

'Pinocchio's Revenge' was pretty bad. I was basically a stunt double for a doll.

I'm an athlete; I've got an ego when stunt doubles have to come in. Not an ego like that, but when it comes to physical stuff, if I didn't have to have a stunt double, I would always probably do it myself unless the producers were jumping in and stopping me.

I'm the one that brought airbags into the stunt world.

I am a guy who is first of all a businessman. I'm not a stunt man. I'm not a daredevil. I'm - I'm an explorer.

I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.

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

It's better to find a stunt person who can act. It's easier to do that than to find an actor who can do a stunt.

I love the physical roles. I have the utmost respect for stunt people and stunt doubles, but I like to do as much as I possibly can with what's become some pretty significant training.

Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.

You do your own stunts as an actor, and you end up getting hurt. It's not your job. You've got stunt guys. Stunt guys make a lot of money.

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.

As a stunt girl I've done most varieties of female fight action.

Some people out there think everything I do is a publicity stunt, they think when I go to the bathroom it's a publicity stunt.

I could take my grandma and put her in a cape, and they'll put her on a green screen, and they'll have stunt doubles come in and do all the action. Anybody can do it. They're relying on stunt doubles and green screen and $200 million budgets - it's all CGI created. To me, it's not authentic.

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You can put the camera in places where you may not necessarily be able to put it there if I don't do the stunt. If it's character and it's storytelling, then we do it. We design the things around me. I don't do it just to do a stunt. It's storytelling for me and how I can best bring the audience into the action, bring the audience into the story. And that's how we always look at at.

I can take an opinion, but I don't like when you try and spew hate and contaminate the way other people think. I feel like I'm one of the people that's always made music for the common man. That's why I don't really live my life the way I could. I don't stunt as much as I could stunt, 'cause that's not who my music is for.

In the stunt world, fights and vehicles are often two different disciplines.

There's no such thing as a great stunt if there's no danger involved.

The things I do, I do for me, not for no publicity stunt or cameras or whatever.

As a performer, the more I scare the stunt coordinator, the better.

I wish I could be behind the wheel for every stunt.

One of the things I learned was that I really enjoyed stunt-car driving.

I had professional stunt racers teaching me how to drive

I will have a largely happier week if I get to do a physical stunt.

Having been a stunt girl for so long, a big part of my job, when being a stunt double, was to not just make the other person look as cool as they could, but also to act as support.

I have talked to stunt drivers all my life, 32 years of talking to stunt drivers. There's a craziness to them.

My boy, that was a TV show. I used a stunt double. I always use a stunt double. Except in love scenes. I insist on doing those myself.

I was a stunt man for 35 years.

Preparing for a stunt is like training for a sporting event.

When you're fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss.

I have a stunt double. His name is Glen Levy, and he has the hardest punch in the world. Seriously - it's actually been recorded by National Geographic. He calls it the Hammer Fist. And he's my stunt double! He makes me look awesome.

There's a lot of directing within the stunt coordinator's job.

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

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Being a stunt girl is very much my comfort zone, so I had to remove the comfort zone to step fully into the slightly scarier zone. Also, just being perceived as an actor by the outside world, rather than as the stunt girl who does dialogue, has been a part of the challenge in front of me.

All stunt men and women are as competitive as I am. They're just not as talented.

Everybody has a stunt except me. Every single person has a stunt, but I don't have a stunt, there's nothing. No wire, no pulling. I try to get in on the danger, but there's nothing.

The vehicle-stunt world is so specialized. But when you spend so long in it as a stunt coordinator, you're exposed to all the disciplines, so it's always fun to combine the two ideas - a car chase and a fight scene - and make something more dynamic.

To be a stunt person you kind of have to have a screw loose like you do in wrestling.

These stunt guys are good at what they do and they're professional. A smart actor will step back and say, "I'm going to let the professionals do this." Hats off to those guys, man. When you see the credits scroll, look at all those stunt guys and remember all those names 'cause they earned their money on this.

I always thought of myself as an amateur stunt man.