I am not a swimmer so a bit of phobia is always there with water stunts.
I do about 90 percent of my own stunts, and the things I can’t do for insurance reasons, like swinging out of a flying helicopter, I wouldn’t want to do anyway.
If I did everything, I probably wouldn’t be here talking to you. There aren’t too many people who can actually double me, so I do most of my stunts though.
I love doing all of my own stunts. Anything. Even if they are telling me, ‘No, no, no! You can’t do that!’ I’ll do it. Like crashing my car through the gate, climbing up the building, kicking in a window… I love doing all of that stuff.
I did do my own stunts.
Yes, generally speaking, I get to do my own stunts.
I would love to do my own stunts, but stunts are not something I have a lot of experience with.
I love doing stunts, though I have to be careful with my back. As for dances, somehow I am uncomfortable doing them. I lack grace.
We were doing the dance routine and I dislocated my knee. I’ve been doing stunts for a long time and it’s kind of weird that I’d dislocate my knee just dancing.
It’s essential I look after myself, because of what I put my body through in stunts as an actor, and even more through the fishing journeys. Trekking through jungles is tough. We don’t escape to hotels and if I’m living with tribes on the bank of a river, I camp out under a canopy or kip in a canoe.
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 don’t see the risk, I enjoy performing stunts, and I don’t get scared.
I’d love to do an action movie. Something with lots of stunts. Anything fast and dangerous and involving guns.
I always wanted to be a stuntman. If acting went well and I was able to take a year out, I might train and get on the stunt register, which gives you qualifications so you can do more of your own stunts.
Needless to say, my stunts take years to perfect and are closely monitored by a team of trained professionals at all times, so no one should ever think about trying to re-create them.
I’m a bit insane when it comes to doing my own stunts and getting down and dirty. It’s fun, you know? It’s things I wouldn’t normally do in my real life, so when I go to work and get to beat people up and shoot guns and get waterboarded, those are things I find completely interesting.
I do my own stunts. You see someone like Graham Norton would have had a stunt double, but no, I give 100 per cent to my viewers.
‘Shivalinga’ was a tough project – I did my own stunts in the film. I actually enjoyed it, as I play a character with many layers. It was challenging to switch between the many phases of the character.
If you really get into a particular character, you also want to do your own stunts.
The main thing is to keep it simple, keep it real, be honest and pull no stunts. You can’t forget where you started and came from.
I’d like to do something where there’s a strong female character and some action. I’ve done a few stunts in the past.
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.
That one was stunt heavy. ‘Monster Trucks’ was a lot of stunts. I got to do some insane stunts they should’ve never let me do.
I want to be able to do more of my own stunts and really be proficient with my weapons.
I loved doing my own stunts, and so, as much as the insurance people would allow me, I would get involved.
I don’t do stunts and I don’t think many actors do. For an actor to say they do their own stunts I don’t think is very respectful of the profession of stunt men and women.
I never got hurt when I was in Morocco doing all the horse riding and my own stunts. But on the last day on the last shot I slid off my horse and landed on my bottom. I did not get hurt but it was very embarrassing.
The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.
I want to do stunts and play a badass. Like Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman. Physicality, fun, evilness.
I’m still nervous every time I act. I’m not when I’m doing stunts.
I do all of my own stunts in videos. The Jet Ski scenes, the fight scenes, all of them!
You can practice dance, climbing a mountain and action stunts, but to get your timing right you have to have the power of imagination and an alert mind.
I love doing my own stunts but it’s hard.
The stunts on the ground I can do, but I’ve never been good with heights.
Stunts have to be meticulously arranged. Choreographed. You could take a fight scene and set it to music.
After doing a bunch of movies as a stuntman, I realized that being a stuntman, you are in the shadow of the actor, and they don’t get to see your true ability, and I wanted people to see that it was really me doing those stunts, and it was really my true abilities.
You are treated like a cog in a machine. The director might be obsessing so much with the stunts that he doesn’t notice your performance, and the producer may just be an insane money man, but I have no snobbery about the movies.
I’m actually doing more stunts for ‘Maze Runner’ than I did for ‘Insurgent.’
It looks better when you do your own stunts, because seeing somebody’s face when they’re doing them is fun for the audience.
Dara Singh worked very hard to maintain his physique. I remember he would work in two to three films at a time and would work for 16 hours at a stretch. He would always do all his stunts by himself. His stamina was unbeatable.
I love doing stunts. I’m dedicated to stunts, in fact. I really find that that brings me even closer to a physical truth about my character that I enjoy being a part of. I love doing that stuff.
I wouldn’t want to be in one room, 20 hours a day, 52 weeks a year, with four white walls and a stove. I think it stunts your growth as a human being.
I love doing the stunts. It’s as simple as that.
Out of a year, a half-dozen stunts are pretty tough. The rest are kinda routine. To go out and slide cars around and lay a motorcycle down hell, you do that without even thinking. But on the tough things, you put an awful lot of planning into it.
I’ve not done the Jackie Chan kind of stunts.
I do my own stunts; that’s something I’m very passionate about. I spent a lot of time on boats as a kid, so it’s just nice to be able to put that into use in the job that I do.
Look at the wrestling business today. You’ve got a bunch of guys jumping around doing dangerous stunts and silly-looking dance moves. Like, I’m gonna dance before I kick you in the head or whatever.
I was in ‘Rent,’ for God’s sake. The closest we came to stunts was dancing on a table.
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’m not for the publicity stunts. Leave my son out of the publicity stunts.
I don’t do any amount of stunts.
The most difficult part of portraying ‘Darna’ would probably be the timing when you do stunts. You have to look strong but you can’t be too strong because you don’t want to hurt the person you are doing the scene with.
Actors say they do their own stunts for the integrity of the film but I did them because they looked like a lot of fun.
My favorite thing about playing a vampire is the stunts. It’s just a new, fun thing to do. Especially as a girl, being able to be all dolled up in heels and little outfits and be able to kick boys’ butts, I think it’s a really fun, make-believe world to play.
Imagination is a pretty powerful thing, and when you’re in the moment and you’re riding a train and you’re asked to look scared, I don’t know, it just kind of works out. And in those moments where you’re actually doing some of the stunts, then it’s not so hard at all, because there’s an actual fear there.
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.
‘Pair of Kings’ is so much fun, literally. It is a very physical show with loads of stunts and green screen work, and you never know what great adventure is ahead of you! It’s also a nice change in terms of being of similar ages to Doc Shaw and Mitchel Musso.
I learned that I can earn many things if I don’t use stunts and do everything myself.
Kamal Haasan makes sure that his co-artists wear the safety gear when they perform stunts.
I was doing stunts for money, not for fame.
I need to be agile because I do all my own stunts.
I love playing roles that are physical, absolutely love. Whether it’s just that kind of basic level of physicality or whether it’s stunts.
As you evolve, you learn that wrestling is not necessarily about stunts or spots. You need to go out and show the audience that they can love you for the persona you are – not because of the risk you’re willing to take or the jeopardy you’re willing to put your body in.
I really enjoy doing stunts, especially. I had never done any stunt work, ever, in my life before, and in our first episode of ‘Legacies,’ I was doing a bunch.
