Quotes About Commitment

If the shot is going to be epic, if it's going to be awesome, and to make it epic and awesome you have to hit the ground and possibly hurt yourself, I choose to hit the ground and possibly hurt myself. Because in my silly stunt man mind, an epic shot that lives forever on film, I'll get over it in a couple of months!

To me, music is not a stunt. Music is not a joke. I take every lick of music that I've ever played very serious.

I worked every day. I never turned down a stunt.

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.

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've done stunts when I was hurting so bad I couldn't hardly breathe and yet I would go ahead and do it.

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.

For the most part, I do a lot of my own stunts. On 'The Final Destination,' they kept pulling my stunt woman in, and I'd shoo her away. I'm a black belt in tae kwon do, so I was adamant about doing stuff myself.

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

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 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 think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul.

My motto is, if you love something, don't set it free. No matter how hard it struggles. That would be stupid.

It's kind of stupid that people think I'm just partying all the time.

Coaches would have me in the gym do 1,000 kicks for a practice. I would do them until everyone was gone, until I had done all my kicks. People asked me why I would do it - that's stupid. But my coach told me to do something like that, and I knew it would benefit me, and I would do it.

That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

I actually got the part. And I thought, Well, I'll do it for a while. I'll just quit if it's stupid.

I think every artist needs a rule that's stupid but that helps him, like a deadline would.

Some people, I think, think that because I don't take it as seriously as a lot of the girls do, that I frown upon modeling or think it's stupid. I don't at all. This is my life. I would be nothing without this. But I really don't take it seriously.

To me, one of the big fears of doing a big huge graphic novel is locking yourself into one style and getting halfway through it and going, 'Oh I made the wrong choice,' which is a recurring nightmare I have.

At the end of the day, I love singing, whatever the style might be.

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

The hardcore fans have hung with us because they go, 'Hey, they don't disappoint.' And we stick to that style.