Stunt Work Quotes

While I was filming 'Kong' - and I don't play a very capable Army Ranger in 'Kong'; I play a completely different character - but we had a lot of Army Rangers there, former Army Rangers, and Navy SEALs, who were working on the movie with us for the other characters, for the Army guys in the movie.

When I was a kid, I loved Jackie Chan.

Yakima Canutt was famously John Wayne's stunt double, and in the Western movie 'Stagecoach,' there is a fantastic scene where there are some horses thundering along, pulling a carriage. He climbs out onto the horses and drops down underneath them, so he's being dragged along, and then he lets go.

I don't do stunts - I do running, jumping and falling down. After 25 years I know exactly what I'm doing.

When 'I' released, I gave a couple of interviews in which I expressed my interest to play an action heroine.

I've never done this level of physical preparation for something. Particularly for 'Rogue One' where I was training every day and doing kung fu rehearsals on a daily basis. But that's part of the reason I wanted to do it, because it was very different from what I've done before.

I've had my face sliced open one day. Stunt man went one way, and I went the same way and had a few stitches.

I want to be in 'Avatar'. I want somebody to hire me to be Superman, a Chinese Superman or Spider-Man.

It's fun for women to be in a Western. And I had to learn how to handle the guns. I would walk around with the fake guns. It takes a lot of practice to twirl them around - but I can do a lot of crazy things now from movies. I can gallop a camel! Give me a camel, I know how to start it and stop it!

Since very early in my career, I have always did my own stunt fighting.

I do all my own stunts!

My respect for Westerns have gone way, way up. It's hard and treacherous work. It's hard to find people these days who can ride horses like that and jump onto trains.

I get paid to get hit in the head.

I've always wanted to do action and action movies. I grew up on that.

With a project like 'The 5th Wave,' you do something you would never do in your normal life; I would never have had S.W.A.T. training or boot camp, and there's something really cool about learning stuff like that that's really fun about our job.

In 'Race 3,' the only person I was scared of working with was Anil Kapoor.

'Immortals' is all action. I love action movies. That's really where I want to spearhead my career.

My first break was in a Hong Kong movie that I shot in China - I was going out there and working as a western stunt man, if you like, but at the same time in England I was working in daytime soap stuff. Eventually I put the two together.

The fight scenes are pretty easy and come pretty naturally for me, to be honest.

I want to be able to do more of my own stunts and really be proficient with my weapons.

For acting, if there's a strong female role and there is that action element, for me that just feels really natural.

When I did 'Good Guys Wear Black,' I had a lot of dialogue in that movie.

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'm a physical type of actor and love projects in which I can get physical. The more action, the better.

I hurt myself doing a fight scene with some dwarves.