Top 45 Zoe Bell Quotes

I got a pair of roller skates for Christmas when I was 4 or 5 or something, so I had a pair as kid. But I also lived on a gravel road so I wasn’t really skating up and down the street.

There is an art to acting, and there are techniques that are acquired. You can be as emotional as you’d like, as a person, but figuring out ways that you can bring specific emotions at specific times and have them be true, and relating to someone as someone that they’re not, is a lot.

It’s not until after you’ve been hit by a car and landed all right that the fear kicks in.

It never occurred to me that I’m intimidating.

This may sound conceited, but the more predominant the role, the more comfortable I am on set.

Work wise, as a stunt woman, I enjoy telly – or TV – because – and, as an actor – I kind of enjoy the urgency of it. I enjoy the problem-solving that’s happening. Right now, we don’t have time to rehearse for hours. And, if something goes wrong, we don’t have time to shoot something else for four days until we sort it out.

Basically, I’d finished doing gymnastics when I was 15, 16, but I’d stayed training because I’d just sort of loved it, and I’d met a man by the name of Peter Bell – no relation – who it turns out was a stuntman in New Zealand.

Actors always ask their directors what their motivation is in this scene or that scene, so I’ve always had this joke where I ask the director what my motivation is too. As a stunt person your motivation is usually to fall over a bench or something.

I don’t like hitting people in the face.

Having been a stunt girl for so long, a big part of my job, when being a stunt double, was to not just make the other person look as cool as they could, but also to act as support.

When you’re falling through space time has no meaning.

With acting, it’s my job to be emotionally vulnerable and accessible.

I have come a long way from a girl with pigtails and acne showing up and going, ‘Hey guys, I’m here! Where do you want me to fall over?’

Neverending Story’ was one movie I did see when I was a kid. On the little island I grew up on, they put up a sheet in the town hall.

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.

I am very, very painfully human.

I think I want to produce action movies.

Gore, like blood and guts and stuff, I am fine. Suspense, I get super sensitive. I can’t handle it.

If it wasn’t for ‘Kill Bill’ I probably would have been back in New Zealand three months after I left, and if it wasn’t for ‘Death Proof’ I don’t think I would be pursuing an acting career right now.

I’ve always loved the collaborative side of filmmaking, and there’s a lot of things I can do in the acting side of things in terms of the creating of action sequences, and coming up with ways of doing things with a stunt coordinator.

It’s not easy, acting.

I’m not fighting to be treated like a dude. I don’t want to be treated like a man. I want to be treated as a talented stunt-person, or I want to be treated as an intelligent person.

I stepped away from stunts and into acting right around when stunt people started getting put into motion-capture stuff.

I keep myself safe both physically and emotionally in my working environment by ‘being one of the boys.’ In my head, subconsciously, that was my safe place.

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

I love the ‘Lethal Weapon’ movies.

I definitely don’t feel like I’m watching ballet during ‘Raze.’

As a stuntwoman, I never wanted anyone to ever feel afraid for me. I didn’t want anyone to ever feel sorry for me.

I’m pretty comfortable on any set where I have something to do.

I never thought about being an actor.

When I worked on ‘Xena’ I had to concentrate on fighting like Lucy Lawless. In ‘Kill Bill’ I not only had to stop fighting like Lucy, after three years of copying her moves, but start fighting like a Wu Shu martial artist. I’d never done Wu Shu before so mentally it was a massive challenge.

I did drama at school and when I was doubling Xena, one time for my birthday mom and dad bought me an acting course ’cause I’ve always liked the performance side of anything.

I’m basically klutzy.

I think I have a pretty decent business savvy, when I give myself room to.

When I’m a stunt woman on a movie, I’m strictly a ‘Yes sir,’ girl… But acting puts more in your hands, and producing gives you more control still.

I don’t know, I’m still a little bit like, when you blend CGI well with real life, it’s impressive, but if you remove real life completely, I still get pulled out of the movie a bit.

If you’re going to fight Tom Cruise, you really don’t want to make that man bleed.

I would say movies all have their own world or reality they’re built in.

I would love to do a comedy, and I think physical comedy is something I probably have a knack on.

Favorites’ questions are my least liked questions because I’ve never been any good at favorites.

I’m a fast learner.

It’s always scarier saying ‘No.’ As an actress, I can say ‘Yes’ to more. But sometimes, as a stunt-woman, I have to say ‘No.’

It turns out I do okay just playing an angry self-righteous woman.

I don’t surround myself with a lower quality of human.

You’ve just got to know yourself, and know what you’re worth, and know where you’re going, and know that you can always, always learn more.