Top 125 Stunts Quotes

While I will always have the utmost respect for the superhuman out-of-bounds freestyle and extreme stunts that seem to continually progress beyond our imaginable limits, my highest appreciation goes out to the simple rider who’s out there just for the experience.

For me personally, fitness is more about a lifestyle. It’s not just about looking good but also doing stunts. For me, it’s a 360 degree approach – whether it’s working out, food we eat, sleeping on time, everything comes together to be fit.

I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when we do stunts.

Broadway was life-changing because it pushes you mentally, physically, emotionally – every way that you can be pushed. It makes you feel like there’s nothing you can’t do. It’s like doing your own stunts.

I’m too old and too rich to do any more stunts.

I love pushing my boundaries and seeing how far I can go without, you know, dying or injuring myself too badly. On set I was like, ‘Give me some stunts! Give me whatever you want. Throw it at me. I want to do it all.’

I love doing my own stunts. I’d love to do a full-on period sword-fighting piece where I get to show off with fighting and horses – I’m up for it.

Planet of the Apes was a gigantic challenge, making the clothes work so people could do stunts and action in the clothes. I really learned a lot about that in that movie.

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.

Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.

It was fun shooting for Vithagan.’ It’s a bubbly character. I perform minor stunts too.

I had a spine problem. I did a lot of stunts and fights in Hindi cinema, had falls from horses… all that took a toll on my health.

I like doing my own stunts.

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.

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

A lot of the motivation for doing the ‘Make ‘Em Laugh’ on SNL was because I had just finished shooting ‘Inception,’ where there were zero-gravity scenes and I got into really good shape and was training and did all these stunts. Coming off of that, that instilled me with the confidence to do ‘Make ‘Em Laugh.’

Acting is my number one, but dancing will always be a part of who I am and in my heart. I love doing stunts when they are a part of my acting.

The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.

I’m in professional wrestling, which is what I do for a living. I coordinate stunts. I memorize them.

Being physical and doing my own stunts – it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.

Doing ‘Marine 3’ and ‘Marine 4,’ and kind of knowing what’s in store, I knew that when you do a ‘Marine’ movie that it’s hard days, it’s long days and all that. You’re tired, your body’s tired, your mind’s tired, but you have to do the acting, you have to do the stunts, you have to do everything.

By the time I got to ‘St Vincent,’ I had shot so many scenarios I was ready for anything – I’ve shot kangaroos, I’ve shot dogs, cats, crowds, fight scenes, stunts, comedy, drama, handheld, dolly, helicopter, crane – I just felt that there was nothing I was unprepared for.

I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn’t foreign to me either.

I used to perform stunts that made me stand distinctly among my peers.

‘Ghazi’ has underwater stunts and was physically taxing. That added to my cardio routine.

To do all your own stunts, you have to be so strong.

Stunts are really fun.

My favorite actor is Steve McQueen, and he did his own stunts.

I’ve always wanted to do stunts for films and television, and I’m doing exactly that. I’m glad it is my job, but I’ve said it before that I’d probably do it for free.

I started off as an artiste and later a producer. All these aspects are interconnected. I became adept at every field – acting, producing, stunts and distributions. I never found anything tough.

I know a lot of people dread going to work every morning, but my work is playing pretend and doing stunts and screaming. It’s a lot of fun and I get to play dress up. Every day is exciting and different and new and cool. I couldn’t be more grateful.

Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the growth of ideas. It also stunts the act of questioning, and it does this by pushing the idea that you have to have faith – and that nothing has to be proven.

Film and theater are about misdirection and making the audience see something. I find it interesting. One of the things we do in ‘True Blood’ is shoot all of our stunts in camera. Instead of doing some kind of visual effect, we try to make it happen.

I like the fact that I can do stunts, but I don’t think of myself as a stunt guy. Those guys are really good at what they do.

In ‘Sisters of War,’ I got to do one of my own stunts. Running out of the building because the Japanese were firing, with all these little spark plugs are going off, looking like explosions and bullets flying down. That was really fun.

Think about doing a bunch of stunts in leather. What does leather do? It doesn’t stretch, it rips.

Stunts are my favourite – I love it: the feeling, the adrenaline when all the cameras are rolling and everyone is watching and crowd round.

The more important a call to action is to our soul’s evolution, the more Resistance we will feel about answering it. But to yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.

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

Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren’t aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.

The ads all call me fearless, but that’s just publicity. Anyone who thinks I’m not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.

The thrills of riding a bike and having to do speedy stunts are something I’ve discovered I love like crazy.

I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all these shows where people are trying to do these outrageous stunts, and I thought it would be funny to do all these stunts that aren’t outrageous but then act like they are.

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

I don’t want people confusing what it is that I’m about. I just stand there and sing. And I don’t do stunts or anything. if I wanted to do all that, I don’t think I’d get away with it.

I would like to be, like, a young jedi in training, like, do some cool stuff and have some awesome stunts, like Tom Cruise. I think that would be my dream role in ‘Star Wars.’

I love the physicality side of roles, I really do, And when I get to do my own stunts, it’s that much cooler. I’ll do anything the production safety people will let me.

Just because the rest of the people in Hollywood don’t do their stunts doesn’t mean I don’t.

I realized being on the set that I love doing stunts and I love fighting and I love action, so it was really fun to shoot those scenes.

I realized I have an appetite for stunts. I learned how to do them myself.

That’s part of the dream – doing my own stunts!

I’d be totally exhausted by mid-afternoon, and I could barely climb the stairs at home. It was particularly alarming because all my life I’d enjoyed doing all my own stunts in shows, taking on every physical challenge. Yet suddenly, I’d become like a very old man. I knew something was wrong, but I had no idea what.

As time went on, I got envious and wanted to do a lot of stunts myself.

I’m not a big fan of CGI. When I look at it, I go: ‘Wait a minute. That’s not possible.’ And I think other people see the same thing. The movies I worked on, we did stunts for real. And I think it shows.

It’s our job to get into the hardest-to-see places and bring back the best footage – we have the best footage of North Korea ever shot. If that’s a stunt, then I’ll keep on doing stunts until I die.

I have always done my own stunts, and I have been in hundreds of fights in films, but I have never been in a fist fight outside the movies.

If you ask me whether I can direct, I can. In fact, I have shot several songs, scenes and stunts. When certain directors of my movies were not able to be there for some reason and had asked me to help out, I have directed. But to helm an entire movie is a different art altogether.