Burt Reynolds Quotes

This is a crazy sport.

I love doing stunt stuff and action stuff. I'm not flipping off helicopters; that would be insane.

Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.

Stunts I love.

I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death.

Extreme sports tricks are becoming increasingly complex, the courses ever more challenging and crashes all too common.

I do love doing stunts; I was in a film called 'The Quiet Ones,' which was quite a spooky film, and I had to be hung upside down, which was good.

I was always the guy who jumped off the roof of the garage, who could climb up the facade of a building.

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.

At least 50 times. I've jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I've been in bedrooms when women came in with knives and guns.

I've always been addicted to adrenaline.

It's like you get a high off the jumps, and you crave it, and you want to do it again and again and again.

I will have a largely happier week if I get to do a physical stunt.

I love it in a movie when they throw a guy off a cliff. I love it even when it's not a movie. No, especially when it's not a movie.

My whole life I've actually been training to be a stunt man without realising it. I've always loved extreme sports, and I now I get paid for it.

I have talked to stunt drivers all my life, 32 years of talking to stunt drivers. There's a craziness to them.

I'm an adrenaline guy. I like to do stuff that gets my blood pumping, like roller coasters or jumping out of planes. I'm into all that crazy stuff.

I think extreme sports are really good for relieving stress.

I love the physicality side of roles, I really do, And when I get to do my own stunts, it's that much cooler. I'll do anything the production safety people will let me.

I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better! If I'm presented with a fast horse or a fast boat, I still get that shiver of excitement and I cannot resist. Luckily I never seem to have any accidents, and thank God for that.

If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.

Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside 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 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 jumped 18 cars on a motorcycle, so I did almost everything.