Ryan Gosling Quotes

Jen Murray, my stunt person, is totally comfortable getting thrown into a cabinet and onto the ground or getting hit by a car. I, on the other hand, am not. Nor would it look great on film, so she does it.

Kamal Haasan makes sure that his co-artists wear the safety gear when they perform stunts.

We take safety very, very seriously on every film I make, and that's why I've never had a serious accident or anybody killed when I make a picture.

We did some cool wire work in 'The Pact' - they had me strapped to a harness underneath my shirt so they could fling me around the house and slam me into doors. I definitely got some bruises even with all the padding!

Any show that includes guns or machinery or stuff like that, you need to trust who's around you because blanks are flying.

I try to stay in the best physical shape that I can because I do most of my own stunts. It looks amazing if you can do it, but I don't advocate it because you always get injured.

An actor would be foolish to do something that might hold up the picture, or more importantly incapacitate him. If an actor does do a stunt he needs to make sure a stunt man stands by to see that it's done correctly.

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.

It's a very, very rare moment when another actor hurts you. That's not normal. If anything, it's the actor accidentally punching the stunt double, which happens quite a bit.

It was bad for a stuntman to have a reputation for being hurt, and worse yet to report it.

No actor does all his own stunts, no matter what he says.

You do your own stunts as an actor, and you end up getting hurt. It's not your job. You've got stunt guys. Stunt guys make a lot of money.

Everything that I've done was prudent and never has anyone gotten hurt in my films - not a single actor, not a single extra, ever.

The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.

If I'm going to fly for more than twenty feet it's generally a good idea to get a stunt guy.

I'm an athlete; I've got an ego when stunt doubles have to come in. Not an ego like that, but when it comes to physical stuff, if I didn't have to have a stunt double, I would always probably do it myself unless the producers were jumping in and stopping me.

I admit that I've been beaten up so many times in films, but we do not fake it - we actually have to fight when we shoot to make it real and to save film and time. Even the props that are not real, like the bats are plastic, but they're still very hard, so it still hurts.

You know, there was not much wire work for any of us actors to do because the extent of what they did was so huge. I mean, they wouldn't just throw you from this table to that wall.

I did do my own stunts.

Stuntwork... once, I've really only done one thing, which is take a punch and transport myself into the air onto a mat.

I always love to do my own stunts when they let me, right?

I punch a lot of guys on set. It's much easier than in real life as your hands don't hurt afterwards. The key is that you miss.

I put on close to 60 pounds for 'Genesis,' an independent movie from New Zealand.

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

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.