Quotes About Performance

Connery made Bond real through his physicality. He did most of his own stunts and fights, and the audience knew it was him.

I've always done a lot of stunts in the past, and I sound like I'm tooting my own horn here, but I've always impressed the people I've worked with, and they've let me do more and more.

If you really get into a particular character, you also want to do your own stunts.

I insist on doing all my own film stunts, although they are often worked out in advance by a stunt man who then advises me on the best and safest method of performing it.

Stunts are my favourite - I love it: the feeling, the adrenaline when all the cameras are rolling and everyone is watching and crowd round.

I need to be agile because I do all my own stunts.

I have always done my own stunts, and I have been in hundreds of fights in films, but I have never been in a fist fight outside the movies.

I would like to be able to do as many of my own stunts where I can.

Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.

Stunts are really fun.

I want to do stunts and play a badass. Like Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman. Physicality, fun, evilness.

I would love to do my own stunts, but stunts are not something I have a lot of experience with.

I love doing my own stunts. I'd love to do a full-on period sword-fighting piece where I get to show off with fighting and horses - I'm up for it.

I've always wanted to do stunts for films and television, and I'm doing exactly that. I'm glad it is my job, but I've said it before that I'd probably do it for free.

I'm kind of hard to double, but I did have one guy for a while as my double. I kind of like to do my own stunts, though, because it's just the overall experience. Sometimes you have to step aside when the stuff gets really dangerous, but I feel like sometimes you have to do your own stunts to make the role seem real.

Doing 'Marine 3' and 'Marine 4,' and kind of knowing what's in store, I knew that when you do a 'Marine' movie that it's hard days, it's long days and all that. You're tired, your body's tired, your mind's tired, but you have to do the acting, you have to do the stunts, you have to do everything.

I'm still nervous every time I act. I'm not when I'm doing stunts.

It was fun shooting for Vithagan.' It's a bubbly character. I perform minor stunts too.

I'd always been a good athlete and I liked getting paid what they paid you for stunts. In those days, they paid you per stunt so I'd try to do as many as I could.

I love doing stunts. I'm dedicated to stunts, in fact. I really find that that brings me even closer to a physical truth about my character that I enjoy being a part of. I love doing that stuff.

I've not done the Jackie Chan kind of stunts.

I stepped away from stunts and into acting right around when stunt people started getting put into motion-capture stuff.

Yes, generally speaking, I get to do my own stunts.

I was doing stunts for money, not for fame.