Quotes About Performance

Broadway was life-changing because it pushes you mentally, physically, emotionally - every way that you can be pushed. It makes you feel like there's nothing you can't do. It's like doing your own stunts.

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.

I'm an athletic actor. I'm known for my action; I'm a guy who does my own stunts on screen.

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 don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about. I just stand there and sing. And I don't do stunts or anything. if I wanted to do all that, I don't think I'd get away with it.

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 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.

When I was very young, Michael Crawford was a real hero because I saw this guy who could do everything - make people laugh, act, do stunts.

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

It looks better when you do your own stunts, because seeing somebody's face when they're doing them is fun for the audience.

I used to perform stunts that made me stand distinctly among my peers.

After doing a bunch of movies as a stuntman, I realized that being a stuntman, you are in the shadow of the actor, and they don't get to see your true ability, and I wanted people to see that it was really me doing those stunts, and it was really my true abilities.

Stunts have to be meticulously arranged. Choreographed. You could take a fight scene and set it to music.

Actors say they do their own stunts for the integrity of the film but I did them because they looked like a lot of fun.

The studio thought I was crazy to perform all of my own fencing stunts, but I loved it.

I do all my own stunts and come away with bruises and scratches.

I observed how a man does action sequences and then adapted it for myself. As a woman, the way I perform the stunts will be different from the way a man does it.

I did do my own stunts.

A lot of the motivation for doing the 'Make 'Em Laugh' on SNL was because I had just finished shooting 'Inception,' where there were zero-gravity scenes and I got into really good shape and was training and did all these stunts. Coming off of that, that instilled me with the confidence to do 'Make 'Em Laugh.'

As much as they'll let me I do my own stunts and I do all my own fighting.

I love playing roles that are physical, absolutely love. Whether it's just that kind of basic level of physicality or whether it's stunts.

I like the fact that I can do stunts, but I don't think of myself as a stunt guy. Those guys are really good at what they do.

I do MMA and things like that, so any chance I get to do my own stunts, I love it.