Quotes from Hal Needham

Hell, if I didn't do stunts, I'd have had to be a bartender, or something else that didn't pay well.

Is there fear? No, there isn't. Now, I've made mistakes. I've broken 56 bones in my body, and each one was a mistake. But when we do stunts, there's just no room for fear.

I'd always been a good athlete and I liked getting paid what they paid you for stunts. In those days, they paid you per stunt so I'd try to do as many as I could.

I was doing stunts for money, not for fame.

As far as I know, there is only one other director who was a stuntman - guy named Chuck Bail who directed 'Gumball Rally.' Doing stunts isn't exactly a common path to directing.

No actor does all his own stunts, no matter what he says.

A man can abuse his body a lot more than a woman can. And that's a fact.

I don't think I've had a better friend than Burt Reynolds. I could ask him for almost anything, and he would have said O.K.

I didn't want to limit my income so I decided to master all aspects of stunting.