Quotes About Stunt

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

There was a cute girl on the crew that I was trying to impress during a very elaborate stunt. I winked at her and, when I started running, proceeded to lose my balance, fall, banged my knee, and ended up sprawled out 12 feet in the air.

Even if an actor might not nail the moves in a way than a stunt person might, I wanted to bring the character of 'Hanna' into everything that she did.

Nobody has really gone out to Russia to fight somebody like Kovalev. A lot of people are paying attention to it and can't believe what I'm doing. Some people think I'm going to pull out. I've seen comments saying 'Oh this is a good publicity stunt' and I was just laughing. They don't understand.

I went to an acting class for 3 years. But then I figured out that, since there were already 26,000 actors in SAG (Screen Actors Guild), I could make a better living as a stunt man.

It's the little added bonus of realism that makes the difference between an adequately done stunt and a really convincing one.

I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won't let me do. Like they won't set fire to me. They won't like let me jump off a 20 story building. There are certain big stunts that it's just impossible to get insurance to let me do, but for the most part I'd say I do probably 75% of my stuff.

I have no problem telling people I have a great stunt double. I'm not that guy who's like, 'I do all my own stunts.' Like, no, no, no - it's make-believe, and I'm not in the mood to die. I'm not in the mood to get hurt. I have a wife and kids!

I'm retired from the daredevil business.

You guys are related to Jonah Wizard? Jake asked, his lip curled disdainfully. And the other guy, Dan grumbled. Vin Diesel's stunt double.

I could remember a half-dozen incidents in which I'd come much closer to death, but I could never recall any past moronic stunt that filled me so completely with disgust.

I nearly got killed in a film, 'Patthar Ke Insaan.' I nearly lost my eyes another time and have been in many accidents in my career.

People think because 'Vice' is irreverent and because we're crazy, we're stunt journalists. You know what? I don't actually care.

The term daredevil applies to some of these people and comes from the root word dares, which stands for Disregard All Reasonable Expert Suggestions.

Are you serious? What the hell does a stunt double do in a porno flick? Jake waved a hand vaguely toward his belt. Extreme close-ups. Uh. What? Historically speaking, it doesn't happen often. Especially what with Viagra now. But it isn't unknown for a director to bring in a double for the close of a scene, if the actor is having trouble finishing. I blinked. He thought I was a stunt penis? Jake laughed at my reaction. Man. You are new.

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

Virtual reality started for me in sort of an unusual place. It was the 1970s. I got into the field very young: I was seven years old. And the tool that I used to access virtual reality was the Evel Knievel stunt cycle.

Love is a publicity stunt, and making love - after the first curious raptures - is only another petulant way to pass the time waiting for the studio to call.

Nik Wallenda and his family are legendary.

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

I guess I'm like any other concerned father, except that nobody else's son guns a cycle over 17 pickups without holding on to the handlebars.

Sanjay had crashed his light aircraft when he was stunt-flying over central Delhi.

You have MS. But you're fit now, as long as you stay cool, and maybe you'll be able to do stunt work for years. You also leap to conclusions without thinking, you give everything, even trees, their own name, you get weird and don't talk when you should." I looked at the oddly bald little bottle in her hand. "And you steal my beer.