Quotes About Risk

The more you do a stunt, the more you increase the risk of something happening.

I was in Australia in 1983 and did a stunt in a lion's cage.

When you're dealing with a shoot day that's costing somebody $300,000; when you're responsible for making that day; when you've got a half-million-dollar stunt that you've got to make sure you cover properly. You don't want to be doing that early in your career. You want to be making your mistakes when not many people are watching.

I'm the one that brought airbags into the stunt world.

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.

I'd say most stuntmen are injured working with horses. They have a one-celled brain and change their minds right in the middle of a stunt no matter how many times they do it right in rehearsal.

I do all my own stunts!

Out of a year, a half-dozen stunts are pretty tough. The rest are kinda routine. To go out and slide cars around and lay a motorcycle down hell, you do that without even thinking. But on the tough things, you put an awful lot of planning into it.

I've got bits falling off me. I'm not made of rubber. That's from film stunts. Every single injury I have is related to a movie. I know that sounds fundamentally embarrassing.

Just because the rest of the people in Hollywood don't do their stunts doesn't mean I don't.

The stunts on the ground I can do, but I've never been good with heights.

I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that the actor's really doing it.

That's part of the dream - doing my own stunts!

When I was doing a movie called 'The Seeker,' I was fortunate enough to be able to do a lot of my own stunts.

I do most of my own stunts because the stunt guys show me how.

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 really enjoy doing stunts, especially. I had never done any stunt work, ever, in my life before, and in our first episode of 'Legacies,' I was doing a bunch.

I never got hurt when I was in Morocco doing all the horse riding and my own stunts. But on the last day on the last shot I slid off my horse and landed on my bottom. I did not get hurt but it was very embarrassing.

I just have to say no to some of the stunts that I love doing so much. I enjoy doing that stuff, but I've learned to let the stuntmen do those.

I don't see the risk, I enjoy performing stunts, and I don't get scared.

I do all my own stunts. I'm kidding.

I like to do my own stunts, but sometimes you need a little bit of help.

There's a standard pay scale for stunts. The more difficult the stunt, the more money involved. But if I'm the only stuntman who can do a particular gag, there's usually a little more in it for me.

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