Billy Burke Quotes

I love getting to work with the stunt coordinator. It's like choreography, like a dance.

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

There are actors that come in and do a fight sequence, but when they have to fall on the ground or take a tag to the belly a bit too hard, they're shocked at how real it is.

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.

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

I wanted to be a stuntman. I didn't really want to be an actor. I took classes when I was younger, but I really sucked.

I worked as a stuntman on the 'Star Trek' TV series pilot.

Having been a stunt girl for so long, a big part of my job, when being a stunt double, was to not just make the other person look as cool as they could, but also to act as support.

To do a comedy team, it requires so much extracurricular stuff, so much compromise, so much intuitiveness to know what the other guy is doing. That's why it's so hard to do it.

There's a lot of directing within the stunt coordinator's job.

The thing is, when we do fight scenes, when we kill people in the movies, they bring in experts to choreograph it bit by bit, because you can't really kill someone, and you don't want to really hurt them.

As a stunt guy, you become a mini-director. You're talking to actors about performance.

It's not easy to act, but to direct to act. It goes form one place to the next. It's not heading for the punchline, and also it's not about scoring goals. It's about passing the ball, and the goals will come by themselves.

On 'Angel' I got to work a lot with Mike Massa, who was David Boreanaz' stunt double, and Mike would let me do most of my stuff by myself. I did almost all my fight scenes by myself.

I think I'm going to be a stuntwoman on the side.

The art of stunt-making is not about falling down; it's about getting the shot. Creating stunts is creating heroes.

We did many of our own stunts. We had our hands full. In fact, the roles were physically demanding.

When you get into a production, there are a lot of things you have to hit to make the show work - like my cues or a cue for another person or making sure you don't mess up the beat, and you can let all of that get in the way.

The last couple of practices, all we've been doing is a lot of defensive things. We've been going over some drills that make all of us have to communicate.

It looks better when you do your own stunts, because seeing somebody's face when they're doing them is fun for the audience.

And getting stunt coordinator Dan Bradley and everybody from the whole 'Bourne Supremacy' crew, I think was real cool for our film because we do a bunch of really big jumps in this movie.

You can't act alone. Use the props, the setting, the crew around you, and of course, your fellow actors.

Sometimes you may even have a stunt double do certain things for you, but when it's close-up and it's really dramatic, that's when you really need to concentrate. You cannot get body doubles or anybody else to do it for you.

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 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.