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.
I like the fact that I can do stunts, but I don't think of myself as a stunt guy. Those guys are really good at what they do.
The stunt guys are absolutely brilliant, but all this stuff [a scene] always looks better when you do it yourself.
If celebs try to do something good, people think it is a publicity stunt and if they do without showing it, they don't get credit.
Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.
One of the things I have had to focus on, in order to move forward, is not being a stunt monkey.
If I'm going to fly for more than twenty feet it's generally a good idea to get a stunt guy.
Sending a couple of guys to the Moon and bringing them back safely? That's a stunt! That's not historic.
I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
I love Buster Keaton. I was a big fan of the stunt shows at Universal Studios. I'm a huge Cirque du Soleil nut.
Quite honestly, ... there`s never been stunt driving before or after as spectacular or elaborate. That`s all real, no (computer trickery).
I'm looking for Commander James Bond, not an overgrown stunt man. [on meeting Sean Connery]
I stepped away from stunts and into acting right around when stunt people started getting put into motion-capture stuff.
The way you present a stunt is tied in to the way you photograph it, so you're hanging out with the cinematographer.
Timing is a big part of stunt work and fighting scenes. It's something you learn in WWE, especially when they are really character-driven fights.
I'm busy gettin rich. I don't want trouble. I made enough for 2 niggas, boy, stunt double.
When not writing and directing, my bread and butter comes from acting and stunt work. I've been fortunate enough to be part of some amazing productions.
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.
I haven't done a lot of action movies, so it's kind of fun to get to do a lot of stunt work.
Stunt coordinating is a good training ground for directing because you have exposure to all the departments in film.
It's the little added bonus of realism that makes the difference between an adequately done stunt and a really convincing one.
For a stunt woman, emotions don't matter to the shot. It was easier for me to do my job if I shut all my emotions off.
One thing I got to do that was awesome was hang off the side of this Ferris wheel and do that stunt myself.
I would never consent to a lame publicity stunt at a time when I already want to hide.
I do most of my own stunts because the stunt guys show me how.
I think if they suddenly cut away and you realize there is a stunt guy, you're out of the movie.
All of the stunt men - these are the unsung heroes. They really are. Nobody is giving them any credibility. They're risking their necks.
I used to do a stunt in almost every movie. When I became an executive, all the insurance guys freaked out.
It's always a stunt acting opposite Robert Picardo, because you never know what he's going to do.
A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.
As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
My particular rule of thumb is to allow disruptors to let their flags fly. If they want to stage a stunt, who cares?
There's no point, me turning up at the world championship as a publicity stunt and then lose 10-3 to someone who shouldn't tie my shoelaces.
I always end up hurting myself doing something mundane. If I have to do some complicated stunt, I'm fine.
But I loved doing the physical stuff for 'Dredd.' I have to give a shout-out to the stunt team that I worked with.
Insiders say that Trump is running for president as a publicity stunt. That's not the Donald Trump I know.
Since I was a kid, I have always froze when I saw an action star perform a stunt defying the parameters of safety and fear.
I have to give props to my stunt double, who is the real deal and gets to do all the fun stuff and make me look good.
All you do in a [stunt] video game, you can do in real life. If you have a passion, don't be too lazy to do it. I hope kids are inspired to go out and do what they really want to do.
There's something that feels more organic about watching a stunt that's done by you. There's also a feeling of accomplishment doing it yourself.
I love getting to work with the stunt coordinator. It's like choreography, like a dance.
I love doing stunt stuff and action stuff. I'm not flipping off helicopters; that would be insane.
The stunt team were great on Defiance. They were there, every day.
Since very early in my career, I have always did my own stunt fighting.
Film is a collaborative art form. I don't know why you wouldn't recognize the stunt performers.
As a stunt guy, you become a mini-director. You're talking to actors about performance.
I've been put under 8.5G in a stunt aeroplane. I felt all right. Well, I lost my vision, but I was still conscious.
I'm self-taught. Even today, on the sets, I probe the lightmen, the stunt artistes... they are from a period I've not seen; I can visualise it through them.
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.
I definitely dabbled and had done a number of stunt jobs in which I was doing fighting.
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 come from a huge theater background. The whole action and stunt world just came as the roles were available.
Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt ... we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold the radical line.
I'm very klutzy. I've fallen off horses, I've tripped with my high-heeled boots over a stunt guy.
The ALS ice bucket challenge was really the most brilliant publicity stunt of 2014, and it has brought worldwide awareness for a barely-known disease.
I had professional stunt racers teaching me how to drive.
Art is a language. It's not a skill. It's not a stunt. It's not something that you just learn to do and put it down. It comes from the heart.
I do my own stunts. You see someone like Graham Norton would have had a stunt double, but no, I give 100 per cent to my viewers.
I'll do more than the average actor, but I'm smart enough to know why stunt guys exist.
I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.
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