Lisa Kleypas Quotes

Sword fighting is just as fun as it looks on the screen.

I couldn't pick up a sword and go fight anyone, let me put it that way. It's choreography and it's acting. The best sword fights you see look amazing, but it's the acting that sells it more than anything.

I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley and Inigo dueling on the cliff-top. I had never held a sword in my life, but I phoned my mum and said, 'I want to learn to fence!'

Really, if you get in the ring and box with someone for real, I don't think it is a sport. As far as professional fighters, you are literally putting your life on the line.

Give me a sword fight any day.

Fencing is a funny sport. Competitive fencing is not really very applicable to the stage world unless you're fighting with a rapier during the Renaissance, you know?

When I was young, I was trained in stage fighting and rapier and dagger for several years.

It's not a game. You can't play boxing.

And what are your interests and hobbies, Nicholas?" Annabel asked faintly, sounding like a cross between a television interviewer and a hostage. Nick considered this for a minute, and then said "I like swords." Annabel leaned over her plate and asked, her voice changing "You fence?" "Not exactly," Nick drawled. "I'm more freestyle.

To make it more familiar to me, I ended up treating my swordplay scenes like choreography. So it was, 'One and two and three and four and five, and turn and step and down and up and lunge.'

I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.

There's a huge difference between stage fighting and real sword fighting.

Doing the sword fighting is like picking up a dance routine... I think dancing really helps with the picking up of it.

I'm not anymore because I haven't kept up with my certification, but I was a certified actor combatant in rapier, dagger, hand-to-hand, and quarterstaff.

I love action. I love stage combat.

I don't like broad swords. They're not much fun. A broad sword is just a big chunk of steel, and there's not much finesse in it, not much skill, I don't think anyway.

There was an incident in Argentina when I was making a film called 'The Warrior and the Sorceress.' There were, like, 40, 50 sword fighters and martial artists on the set, and one of the sword fighters challenged me. I said, 'Look, you don't want to fight me. Nobody wants to fight me. You gotta be crazy to want to fight me.'

I think a wrestler can say something from fighting, from wrestling.

I always loved stage combat at drama school so I can't wait to get on set and kick some evil monsters into the next dimension!

Man, jiu-jitsu is such a chess match.

I love the sport. I love fighting. Fighting is my life.

I love MMA. I love the sport of it.

I collect swords, but I'm not really a swordsman.

I know MMA isn't for everyone. It is a combat sport; some people don't like watching it, but it is entertainment for some people.

This is a fighter sport.