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I hate sequels.
I've wrecked a lot of good cars in my day.
Screw the dialogue, let's wreck some cars.
I was doing stunts for money, not for fame.
I'm too old and too rich to do any more stunts.
I worked every day. I never turned down a stunt.
I know one thing; I'll never win an Academy Award.
I'm the one that brought airbags into the stunt world.
The critics gave me bad reviews on every movie I made.
No actor does all his own stunts, no matter what he says.
I worked as a stuntman on the 'Star Trek' TV series pilot.
I have never agreed that stuntmen should have an award. Never.
Out in Hollywood I'm getting to be regarded as the 'redneck adviser.'
Certainly, I want to be the first through the sound barrier in a car.
There's no such thing as a great stunt if there's no danger involved.
I was damn sure that I was not going to be a lawyer or a brain surgeon.
I was a sharecropper's son. That's as low as you can get on the totem pole.
I know what people like, and fortunately they seem to share my sense of humor.
The song 'Eastbound and Down' by Jerry Reed is, of course, a personal favorite.
I didn't want to limit my income so I decided to master all aspects of stunting.
All stunt men and women are as competitive as I am. They're just not as talented.
You can only fall so far through a tree before the limbs become abrasive to your body.
I don't want to sound like I'm bragging, but I know I'm the best stuntman in Hollywood.
It was bad for a stuntman to have a reputation for being hurt, and worse yet to report it.
No, Hal Needham without Burt Reynolds has not done well. 'Megaforce' went right in the toilet.
I've broken fifty-six bones, broke my back twice, punctured a lung and knocked out a few teeth.
I was always pushing the limits, going as far as I could. I would do all kinds of crazy things.
After the success of 'Smokey,' my profit participation only went up on future movies I directed.
Hell, if I didn't do stunts, I'd have had to be a bartender, or something else that didn't pay well.
I've done stunts when I was hurting so bad I couldn't hardly breathe and yet I would go ahead and do it.
Stunts have to be meticulously arranged. Choreographed. You could take a fight scene and set it to music.
The first movie I worked was called 'The Spirit of St. Louis.' It was the story of Charles Lindberg's life.
If you read books forever and ever, they will never replace what really counts - that's practical experience.
I just knew it would get a big laugh when people saw the 'Flying Nun' throwing the bird to a highway patrolman.
Courage? Well, that's a difficult quality to define. If a man has never known fear can you call him courageous?
I don't think I've had a better friend than Burt Reynolds. I could ask him for almost anything, and he would have said O.K.
I'm not sure I have the knowledge, the intelligence or the sensitivity to direct a 'Love Story' or a 'Fiddler on the Roof.'
I have to understand what I'm doing, and action is so simple and easy for me that I'd be foolish to try something different.
Coaching a football player is the same as directing an actor. The guy has to follow orders and be able to perform skillfully.
It's the little added bonus of realism that makes the difference between an adequately done stunt and a really convincing one.
I don't even consider directing Burt. I just say, 'Hey, Burt, the camera's here. Read the joke and let's get onto the next shot.'
I know it looks like Burt walks through his movies, but he doesn't; he works hard to make it look that way, and the work is tough.
When the 55 mph speed limit came in and the oil crisis caused fuel rationing, the truckers began to look like the last American cowboys.
My ego would be fed tremendously when I'd go on a set and get in a car and tear it to pieces. I'd get out and everyone on the set would applaud.
You have to be an athlete. A sense of timing is vital. So is dedication. Being a stuntman calls for qualities usually associated with being a dancer.
There's no more fun. All that digital stuff - we used to do that crap for real! I hate that stuff. Young kids who play video games seem to like it, but I don't.
Audiences want Burt, John Wayne and others to go on doing the same thing forever. It's critics and the actors themselves who want actors to try different things.
I'd always been a good athlete and I liked getting paid what they paid you for stunts. In those days, they paid you per stunt so I'd try to do as many as I could.
I have a country-boy sense of humor. I come from a poor family, and I have no education. But I am Middle America, and what makes me laugh is what makes them laugh.
Anyone who thinks stuntmen are crazy is dead wrong. These guys are calculating. They rig things, they think about different ways of doing it... they're not afraid.