Victoria Pratt Quotes

Since very early in my career, I have always did my own stunt fighting.

But I loved doing the physical stuff for 'Dredd.' I have to give a shout-out to the stunt team that I worked with.

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.

For the most part, I do a lot of my own stunts. On 'The Final Destination,' they kept pulling my stunt woman in, and I'd shoo her away. I'm a black belt in tae kwon do, so I was adamant about doing stuff myself.

I would love to do my own stunts, but stunts are not something I have a lot of experience with.

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.

As a stunt girl I've done most varieties of female fight action.

I love the physical roles. I have the utmost respect for stunt people and stunt doubles, but I like to do as much as I possibly can with what's become some pretty significant training.

I do most of my own stunts because the stunt guys show me how.

I don't get a chance to do many of my own stunts on 'Buffy' - none of us do. We have amazing stunt people who make us all look really believable and really good.

I do some of my stunts for the things I have learned. But if it is for something I have never learned, then I use a double.

I would like to be able to do as many of my own stunts where I can.

In the stunt world, fights and vehicles are often two different disciplines.

If you really get into a particular character, you also want to do your own stunts.

It never occurred to me that being a stunt girl would get me recognized in any way, because the whole purpose of a stunt person is to not be known.

When I came in, Westerns were the big thing, so I did horse falls, transfers, bulldogs, big fights. That's where you could really shine if you were really good at it. But then all the Westerns stopped, and I was capable of doing car stunts, motorcycle stunts and high falls. I could do it all.

Stunt people are amazing at what they do, but they're not actors.

I was a stuntman for over fifteen years.

The stunt team were great on 'Defiance.' They were there, every day.

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.

I was a stunt man for 35 years.

So there was always a stunt coordinator on those films that was from Stunts Unlimited and I was just one of the young warriors from Stunts Unlimited that got to be a part of it because it was a big show and they needed a lot of guys.

I'm actually doing more stunts for 'Maze Runner' than I did for 'Insurgent.'

I want to be able to do more of my own stunts and really be proficient with my weapons.

As far as I know, there is only one other director who was a stuntman - guy named Chuck Bail who directed 'Gumball Rally.' Doing stunts isn't exactly a common path to directing.