Quotes About Stunt

For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes.

Some of the martial arts films, the motivation is about martial arts. That's where it's coming from. It is a visual, commercial film, to showcase the next stunt, the biggest thing. And character development becomes a side thing.

Action to me is something very fun to shoot.

Do you have any coffee?'...'It stunts my growth, and I'm afraid of death.

As a stunt woman, I took it upon myself to be a bit of a jock about it. So you wouldn't see me vulnerable, you wouldn't see me hurting or sad because I was there as a professional to do my job. Nobody likes to see a girl get hurt - that's the truth of it - so I had to put them at ease so they would let me do my job.

I always check my harness before I do a stunt; I test-drive the cars I have to race or explode; I'm present at all pyrotechnical rehearsals; and I walk through everything step-by-step. No man should put their life in someone else's hands unless they have covered their own safety from all angles.

I jumped between two seven-story buildings in Los Angeles, launching from one rooftop to the other with ramps.

I think if they suddenly cut away and you realize there is a stunt guy, you're out of the movie.

I chose to dive into a pool of cold water in 'Ooty' though the director suggested that we use a stuntman. I was pleased with the applause but I took precautions.

When I hit that pavement at 70 or 80 mph those suits just ripped.

He and Helen spent the rest of the winter there, seeing friends and promoting his cigars. He staged one stunt in which he smoked three cigars at one time.

'The Karate Teen' was great, where John Cena kicked me through four walls, or five walls. It was amazing how the film unit put that together. They literally strapped me to a chair and dragged me through five different set walls.

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.

They were thinking: "I don't know who this guy is, but I'm definitely coming to class tomorrow to check out his next stunt." I sure got their attention. That's always the first step to solving an ignored problem.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.

I almost broke my coccyx on 'The Wolf Man,' and I banged my head once. I had to fall really hard.

I was a stunt man for 35 years.

I'm looking for Commander James Bond, not an overgrown stunt man. [on meeting Sean Connery]

The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It's really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they're actually really happy, good- natured people.

Special Super Bowl Wisdom of the Ages: "Tom Brady's balls" Nothing more than a publicity stunt to keep the NFL Network from losing San Francisco's market share.

I jumped off a cliff backwards for 'I Am Number Four ' which was pretty cool. I'd never done that before. It took seven takes from different angles and luckily there were no injuries. I came close, though. My head nearly hit the rock at one point.

No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it.

The worst was practicing a stunt for John Wayne in 'McQ.' I lost two teeth, broke six ribs, cracked a vertebra and punctured a lung. I spent 12 days in the hospital.

You're suspended sixty feet up in the air, you've been up there for three hours, and all the shot requires is that you have to sort of react to getting punched in the head.