Words matter. These are the best Fight Scene Quotes from famous people such as Eve Torres, Aidan Gallagher, Dana Carvey, Chuck Norris, Carrie-Anne Moss, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Being offered the role in the Jackie Chan film was amazing. I got to do a fight scene with Jackie Chan.
That fight scene in episode two between Five, Hazel, and Cha-Cha at the department store was a lot of fun to shoot.
I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn’t afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
What was Bruce Lee like? How did you meet? What was it like to choreograph the fight scene in Rome with him? Did you spend much time together off-screen? Those are a small sampling of the inquiries I’m asked often, wherever I go around the world.
I’m such a private person, and sexuality is such a private thing. A sex scene is much harder than a fight scene. It’s one thing to say, ‘Kick higher,’ but ‘Kiss harder’ – that’s just crazy.
Choreographing a fight scene is telling a little story. You learn a lot about the characters involved.
I cry at absolutely anything. ‘Lethal Weapon,’ the fight scene at the end – you can see it on YouTube.
Generally, when you prepare for a fight scene, you have a day before, where you’re going through hours of choreography and getting comfortable with the different moves.
You can have the most emotional moment as an actor, ever, and many people would be like, ‘Okay, cool. What’s next?’ You land one punch in a fight scene, and everyone is like, ‘Yeah!’
I’ve got to give a lot of credit to my cinematographer, Chung-hoon Chung, who is a master and among other things shot ‘Old Boy,’ which is a very famous single-take fight scene. He’s really a true master.
I got into shape because I took kick-boxing lessons every day to prepare for a fight scene with Taylor Lautner. I really wanted to lie down and eat Chinese food, but I kick-boxed every morning and ran. If someone was filming you with your kit off, you’d do the same thing.
Then I did one fight scene, and they said it looked good. Because I did it well enough, they’ve given me more.
Tom Arnold and I, we have a huge firefight scene on top of a German tank. I get to shoot 50 caliber rounds. We shoot a helicopter out of the sky. That’s the only fight I’m in.
I was in a play directed by my father, and I was doing a fight scene, and the choreography went haywire, and I flew backward over a chair and ripped my thumb all the way to my wrist and had to have surgery to sew up all the tendons in there.
The vehicle-stunt world is so specialized. But when you spend so long in it as a stunt coordinator, you’re exposed to all the disciplines, so it’s always fun to combine the two ideas – a car chase and a fight scene – and make something more dynamic.
