Katee Sackhoff Quotes

Actors are always nervous about not only hurting each other, but maybe perhaps hitting each other's face and ending one's career.

With stunt guys, you can punch them in the face because it's, you know, just part of work. You feel bad about that but not as bad as if you punch another actor.

I remember hitting Sarah Michelle Gellar with a right hook during my first week on the job. It was awful. They usually pair actors with stunt doubles to avoid things like that.

I did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn't fall all the way.

When you fight on set, you try to not hurt anybody.

Whenever you're fighting with weapons, there's a level of reality because people don't understand that these are still metal or hard rubber with sharp points - that if the timing's wrong, you could definitely get hurt. There's nothing like working with an actor who doesn't know what they're doing, because you're always in fear of losing an eye.

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

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.

I have a healthy lifestyle, but there's nothing you can really do to prevent from rolling an ankle or something like that.

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.

It's great playing a sport where you don't get hit in the head.

If you're gonna do action movies, you're gonna get an injury at some point. It's inevitable.

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.

It's football. Guys get hurt all the time.

That's football. It's going to happen. Guys are going to get hurt.

Guys play basketball and get hurt, and that's probably the easiest sport on the planet. We're actually fighting every day. We're wrestling; we're grappling.

I have made 70 or so films. In all my films not a single actor, a single extra, was hurt. Not one. So statistics are on my side when I say I'm clinically sane.

I mean, football is a violent sport.

I can't take 200 hacks in the cage before the game. Not because I'll get tired, but because I'll hurt myself! I can't do that. I might get injured.

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

I've seen people fall over and get fouls. I don't do that.

It's a dangerous sport, you can get really hurt. God helped me, protected me so I wouldn't have any damage, any serious injury.

My experience over my five years at Wisconsin and my one year in the NFL was that there were times where I couldn't play the game safely. There are positive measures we can take... but on a lead play, on a power play, there's violence.

It's unfair to think that we can do what we do with the intensity that we do it and expect injuries to not happen.

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