Stunt Doubles Quotes

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

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

I'd always been a good athlete and I liked getting paid what they paid you for stunts. In those days, they paid you per stunt so I'd try to do as many as I could.

I've not done the Jackie Chan kind of stunts.

I went to an acting class for 3 years. But then I figured out that, since there were already 26,000 actors in SAG (Screen Actors Guild), I could make a better living as a stunt man.

I've definitely become much more aware of physical stunts.

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 don't consider an actor a star if he's paid $20 million and grimaces in front of the camera and has a stunt man stand in for him. They may be fine actors, but they're not role models. The real stars are wearing body armor in 130-degree heat . . . They're getting shot at and they don't have any stunt doubles standing in for them.

You do your own stunts as an actor, and you end up getting hurt. It's not your job. You've got stunt guys. Stunt guys make a lot of money.

If I'm going to act in someone's movie, I want the movie to be interesting and be able to get a couple of solid doubles.

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

I don't understand the whole concept of doubles. They used to do that in the early sound films in Hollywood, but I thought we had gotten rid of that. Now not only do you have doubles, but as in Flashdance, you have triples, quadruples. From my point of view it is bad for the art.

I like doing fight scenes. I always have, and I insist on doing as much of that action as they'll let me do. I think that's easy for me.

Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again.

The funny thing is, I've never really hurt myself in an action movie. I've done 'Wanted,' 'X-Men,' 'Welcome To The Punch,' even 'Trance' to a certain extent has little bits of action and stuff, but I've never really hurt myself at all - not even like a sprained ankle.

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

Coming from an action background, I always approach the action sequences in any script as kind of placeholders.

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

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.

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

It's much easier to do a fight sequence between two people, if one of the two people in the fight is a stunt person, or you're going to risk somebody getting hurt.

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

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'll do more than the average actor, but I'm smart enough to know why stunt guys exist.

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