Hal Needham Quotes

I love doing stunts.

For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes.

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.

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

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

If I can't play for big money, I play for a little money. And if I can't play for a little money, I stay in bed that day.

I don't make money on the road, and so there's less and less incentive for me to do it when I don't have that adolescent desire for whatever it is, glory or fame.

When people ask me what my motivation is, I have a simple answer: money.

Of course, I do everything for money.

If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.

The money isn't a lure. I've done very well out of this business.

I enjoy the risk of bungee-jumping. I used to pay money to do it. Now, it's the opposite. I get paid to do action.

I'm not in this for the money because if I was, I would have jumped out after our first album.

Actually, I never work in movies for money. I'm glad when I get well-paid, but it's not always the case - trust me.

As a fighter, I recognise that the one thing we fight for is prizes. The one thing that motivates us is money. A lot of fighters do come back because of money. The biggest spur they have is financial, and thank God my finances were secure, and I didn't need to come back for that reason.

I didn't come into the music business to make money. I came into it to be a success. Of course, if you're successful, you'll earn money and I was happy to receive it.

Money talks. I want the biggest fight. Whoever I've got to fight - the biggest show, biggest payday - that's what I want.

I like doing my own stunts.

I mean, you have a general tone of it but it's pretty much you get to come in and you're going to flip this car and it's going to blow up and you're going to come out on fire and you go oh, that's cool, and then you get paid a lot of money.

The Tom Strong thing was totally for the money. I plan to get looser after I finish this Maggie saga.

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'm like the Ben Affleck of crowd surfing.

There are two things I will never do in my life. I will never climb Mount Everest, and I will never work with Val Kilmer again. There isn't enough money in the world.

I love things where I can be physical and I so love high stakes, and you usually don't get that unless you're doing a play or an action movie.

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