Joy Bryant

My husband's a stunt man, and he dragged me to stunt driving school with him because I hate driving and he felt that it would help to make me feel more comfortable. And it did in certain ways, and in certain ways I'm still not.

American Actress

Keke Palmer

Broadway was life-changing because it pushes you mentally, physically, emotionally - every way that you can be pushed. It makes you feel like there's nothing you can't do. It's like doing your own stunts.

Katee Sackhoff

It's a very, very rare moment when another actor hurts you. That's not normal. If anything, it's the actor accidentally punching the stunt double, which happens quite a bit.

Jean-Paul Belmondo

I insist on doing all my own film stunts, although they are often worked out in advance by a stunt man who then advises me on the best and safest method of performing it.

French Actor

Esme Creed-Miles

Even if an actor might not nail the moves in a way than a stunt person might, I wanted to bring the character of 'Hanna' into everything that she did.

English Actress

Eve Torres

Timing is a big part of stunt work and fighting scenes. It's something you learn in WWE, especially when they are really character-driven fights.

Nicolas Cage

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.

Actor

Jeremy Renner

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.

American Actor

Pilou Asbaek

I like to do my own stunts, but sometimes you need a little bit of help.

Danish Actor

Hal Needham

I was the highest-paid stuntman in the world.

American Director

Used to describe actions in shows that are designed to amaze audiences, often thrilling.

Entertainment Focus

Stunts are typically risky, emphasizing the daredevil nature of the performers.

Potential Danger

Performing stunts often requires training and skill, not just a willingness to take risks.

Professional Skill

When used as a verb, 'stunt' implies a negative impact on growth or progress.

Negative Effect

Stunting something is often an unintended result of another action or condition.

Unintended Consequences

The effect of stunting is progressive and may not be immediately visible.

Not Immediate

In film, stunts create thrilling scenes that can appear dangerous or impossible.

Movie Magic

Stunt performers are specially trained professionals who execute challenging scenes.

Specialists Required

 There is no safety, no back support, no pads, no crash mats, no sand pits in the ground. That's one of the most dangerous horse stunts, certainly. Talking of dangerous stunts and bringing things slightly up to date, some of the most dangerous stunts we do as stunt people are fire stunts. We couldn't do them without technology.

Steve Truglia: A leap...

 and yet, he seems to have gone around both sides of that tree at the same time. Well, if you saw tracks like that you'd guess it was some sort of stunt, of course. But in the quantum world, this happens all the time. Particles can multitask, they can be in two places at once. They can do more than one thing at the same time.

How Quantum Biology...

 was in stark contrast to the popular belief that math was an intuitive science, and an over-dependence on logic constrained creativity. But this rebellious band of scholars gleefully ignored conventional wisdom. They were revolutionizing the field, and they wanted to mark the occasion with their biggest stunt yet.

The greatest mathematicia...

 environment this has happened so many times before there's nothing to be afraid of right so yeah he's trying to rationalize yeah please say you're not dropping me oh good lord the danger of this stunt exists only in the imagination of the players but dr.

Screams of the Falling PIPE...

 I didn't get the part. Sherry Brown got the part. I went racing to the head of the theater department crying hysterically, like someone shot my cat, to ask her why, and she said it was because they didn't think I could do the stunts.

I got 99 problems......

 containing pork meat but what's extraordinary is that it's not on dry land it's in the lake deep under water what we want to do is pick for a note and use her sounding ability and try to pinpoint it this isn't just a stunt it's

How Powerful Is a Dog's...

 good but now they're selling drugs because their friend did it or their cousin do it and that's some sin if you're not selling drugs why you stunt on the corner why are you standing on the corner just stand on the corner just

On Black Lives Matter,...

 which limits their ability to replicate. This stunts the virus’s spread because they depend on their host’s replicative machinery to reproduce. It also protects surrounding cells from damage since some viruses spread

Why do you get a fever...

 I don't really need it because I've been doing this stunt for audiences all over the world for the last eight or 10 years, taking fatal doses of homeopathic sleeping pills. Why don't they affect me?

Homeopathy, quackery and...

 I wanted the rocket. I never got the rocket, I only got the motorcycle. I felt so connected to this world. I didn't want to be a storyteller when I grew up, I wanted to be stuntman.

Stunt

A exciting action designed to entertain people, often dangerous or requires physical ability.