Quotes About Action

Doing stunts all by myself has been a deliberate decision because I wanted to do all stunts by myself because female actors don't get the opportunity to work in action films, and I think when you get such an opportunity, then you have to make most of it.

Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling.

I don't do any amount of stunts.

One of the things that's interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually relax me. When they're putting a bit of gel on my arm and lighting me on fire, or when I'm about to go into a high-speed car chase or rev a motorcycle up pretty fast, I find everything else around me slows down.

If you don't finish a day of stunts with a lot of bruises, you feel like you haven't done it right.

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 love doing the stunts. It's as simple as that.

I did do my own stunts.

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 love doing stunts.

I love action and I love doing my own stunts. I love that sort of thing.

I'm a bit insane when it comes to doing my own stunts and getting down and dirty. It's fun, you know? It's things I wouldn't normally do in my real life, so when I go to work and get to beat people up and shoot guns and get waterboarded, those are things I find completely interesting.

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.

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

In 'Sisters of War,' I got to do one of my own stunts. Running out of the building because the Japanese were firing, with all these little spark plugs are going off, looking like explosions and bullets flying down. That was really fun.

It's so important for me to do my own stunts. The sense of achievement is so immense. But the studios don't want to take the risk.

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

I realized I have an appetite for stunts. I learned how to do them myself.

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

I wanted to be a stuntman. I've done stunts since I was 11, and wanted to be able to do them whatever kind of work I ended up in. I've had a horse roll on me, but luckily, everything stayed intact.

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.

For my character, I mostly shot in the jungles and also did stunts and fight sequences on the harness. At the end of the day, I used to be hurt and bruised, but I completely enjoyed doing all these.