When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal.
I need to be agile because I do all my own stunts.
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.
I love the training, learning the stunts, doing them. I love feeling that power - doing things you could never actually do in life - like flying and doing backflips in the air!
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.
As much as theyll let me I do my own stunts and I do all my own fighting.
Something happened to me and I became really successful at something at a young age, and that stunts you in every other aspect of your life because you feel like that's what you're good at and so that's what you need to stay in.
I love that they do that. I love action and I love doing my own stunts. I love that sort of thing.
I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
I do generally all my stuff [stunts] except for motorcycles and cars, that stuff I don't know how to do as well as certain people do.
Do you have any coffee?'. . . 'It stunts my growth, and I'm afraid of death.
The funny thing is, the older I get, the less I enjoy talking when I act. I don't like talking anymore. I like behavior. All of the running and gunning, and the fights and the stunts, is just awesome fun.
I've done things to my body, mechanically, that I'll never do again. I've done stunts that I shouldn't have done 10, 11, 12 times. I've broken a ton of bones on sets.
I love doing my own stunts but it's hard.
My favorite actor is Steve McQueen, and he did his own stunts.
I've always done a lot of stunts in the past, and I sound like I'm tooting my own horn here, but I've always impressed the people I've worked with and they've let me do more and more.
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 dont advocate it because you always get injured.
I've got to be active in life, and it's the same when I'm doing stunts in a movie: I'll do anything.
I did do my own stunts.
I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that the actor's really doing it.
