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Quotes About Stunt

Don't think of it as military," Julia said. "Think of it as theatrical. Massed pipes and drums," she said, reading from a program the so-called piper had given her, "and an army motorcycle stunt team. Highland dancers? And, oh, look, Russian Cossack dancers. That sounds like fun, doesn't it?" "No.
~ Kate Atkinson
spectacles at Willow. "If we cooperate with these people, they—or someone else—could try the same stunt again." The mild, quiet voice of John Dixon cut in. "I don't think so, Ramsey. We're all going to be a lot more careful from now on—especially about provenances. This is the kind of trick you
~ Ken Follett
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.
~ William Shatner
I mean, you have a general tone of it but it's pretty much you get to come in and you're going to flip this car and it's going to blow up and you're going to come out on fire and you go oh, that's cool, and then you get paid a lot of money.
~ David R. Ellis
I go to this gym full of stunt men. There aren't any TVs or treadmills there. This is a spit-and-sawdust kind of place. It has a lot of great training aids - trampolines and bags and every weapon ever invented to do harm to a human being. If you want to know how to throw a knife, it's great.
~ Jason Statham
My exercise regime for the film was really intense. I'd work out with a trainer six days a week, and then I had a stunt rehearsal team that would do boxing, stretching, and a little bit of parkour. And yet, people don't get to see me shirtless in this movie. I don't know if you've seen the trailer, but this Aladdin wears a shirt.
~ Mena Massoud
I remember hitting Sarah Michelle Gellar with a right hook during my first week on the job. It was awful. They usually pair actors with stunt doubles to avoid things like that.
~ Eliza Dushku
In an action film, you think of things that are almost impossible to do and yet you have to manage to show them as being possible on film.
~ Vijay Krishna Acharya
I broke my finger in a stunt in a very not-too-romantic way. I was just trying to tackle someone, and I just flicked his forearm and then screamed in pain.
~ Chris Pine
Zack Snyder is a huge fan of 'Game of Thrones,' and I met him in the training stunt facility that I train at, and I guess he really liked me because he later called me into his office, and we talked about playing Aquaman.
~ Jason Momoa
Being a part of the action is just incredible. I loved doing stunt stuff. I loved learning to ride.
~ Anna Popplewell
My life has been being a daredevil. I am Evel Knievel. I am a daredevil.
~ Evel Knievel
I remember my first taste of American big movies was 'Ghost Rider.' I'm in two little scenes. But for those two little scenes they had 400 extras, upside-down stunt cars, and a fire brigade.
~ Rebel Wilson
I had professional stunt racers teaching me how to drive.
~ Devon Aoki
One thing I got to do that was awesome was hang off the side of this Ferris wheel and do that stunt myself.
~ Alexandra Daddario
I did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn't fall all the way.
~ Ryan Gosling
I've been on sets where I broke my ankle on a television show doing a stunt playing Arthur in 'Camelot.' That was because it was really rushed, and it hadn't been thought through properly.
~ Jamie Campbell Bower
Although blaming traffic for being that late seemed almost comical to him, he held back from calling her on what he imagined was a passive-aggressive stunt.
~ Robin Cook
Im busy gettin rich. I dont want trouble. I made enough for 2 niggas, boy, stunt double.
~ Drake
I punch a lot of guys on set. It's much easier than in real life as your hands don't hurt afterwards. The key is that you miss.
~ Timothy Olyphant
If you talk to anyone who's done a stair fall, there's not one stair fall, no matter how many pads you have on or how protected you are, where you don't hurt something really bad.
~ Lucas Till
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.
~ Aaron Paul
I always kind of aim with the action stuff to make it feel like, as an audience member, you're experiencing what the people are experiencing. As soon as you go into slow-mo or repeated edits, shooting it like it's a stunt, it takes it out of that reality. The more real you make that stuff, the more tense it will be.
~ Joel Edgerton
I've always loved the collaborative side of filmmaking, and there's a lot of things I can do in the acting side of things in terms of the creating of action sequences, and coming up with ways of doing things with a stunt coordinator.
~ Zoe Bell