Zoe Bell

It never occurred to me that I'm intimidating.

I've always appreciated great acting performances, but I've even learned to appreciate not so great ones 'cause it's hard.

There is an art to acting, and there are techniques that are acquired. You can be as emotional as you'd like, as a person, but figuring out ways that you can bring specific emotions at specific times and have them be true, and relating to someone as someone that they're not, is a lot.

I don't have children, but when I meet my friends' kids at six months old, and then I don't see them again for another six months, the changes are drastic. But if you've seen them every day, the changes are less shocking.

For a stunt woman, emotions don't matter to the shot. It was easier for me to do my job if I shut all my emotions off.

I've worked with horses on and off most of my life, but literally 'on and off' - flipping on them and falling off them.

If you can fight in high heels, you can walk in high heels.

Well, I did two lines on a TV show called 'Cleopatra 2525' really badly with an American accent; it was terrible!

When I was injured after 'Kill Bill' I had a year where I not just couldn't make any money but I couldn't swim, I couldn't surf, I could hardly run, which is insane. I couldn't do gymnastics, martial arts, I could barely crawl on all fours. That was devastating to me.

Life's too short to be super conservative but it's also too short to make it any shorter. I don't plan on dying early, but at the same time I don't plan on playing it so safe that I'll live to ninety.

I had done maybe three lines of dialogue, ever, before doing 'Death Proof.'

Having been a stunt girl for so long, a big part of my job, when being a stunt double, was to not just make the other person look as cool as they could, but also to act as support.

No one has ever seen me as feminine.

I'm a fast learner.

In our case, with 'Raze,' we had a really, really tight schedule. We shot something like 17 fights in three and a half weeks which is insane.

As a stunt girl I've done most varieties of female fight action.

For all the hundreds of scripts that are out there, there's not that many that are amazing.

I have done a lot of prosthetics throughout my career so I am used to it.

I am very, very painfully human.

If you give anything less than 120% as an actor then you end up looking uncomfortable.

I'm still nervous every time I act. I'm not when I'm doing stunts.

Yes, generally speaking, I get to do my own stunts.

I grew up on an island without TV.

I'm a very coordinated individual.

Don't be afraid girls. Power's awesome!

I think I have a pretty decent business savvy, when I give myself room to.

My strengths, I think, are that I deal really well with people. I like people. I'm fascinated by how they work so I'm good at handling situations between departments on set or pre-production or post.

I really love being a part of the creative process. I love having an opinion that gets heard, and then it's all up for discussion.

I think I want to produce action movies.

I've always had a fascination with gymnastics, since I was a kid. It was the one thing at the Olympics that I would be like, 'Mom can I stay up late to watch gymnastics?'

I'm not fighting to be treated like a dude. I don't want to be treated like a man. I want to be treated as a talented stunt-person, or I want to be treated as an intelligent person.

I love the 'Lethal Weapon' movies.

I never was fanatical about films when I was younger.

The producing thing has come quite naturally to me. I feel like for directing, I would like to be more technically-savvy. I want to have the language under my belt, and I also want it to be a project that is very personal to me, for my first one.

I mean, being a stuntwoman never occurred to me until I gave up gymnastics and started doing martial arts and met people that were stunt people. I was like, 'What? Wait. You get to fight and flip and get paid?' I was like, 'Mum, dad, check this out - I could do this stuff and get paid instead of having you guys pay for me to do it.'

When I worked on 'Xena' I had to concentrate on fighting like Lucy Lawless. In 'Kill Bill' I not only had to stop fighting like Lucy, after three years of copying her moves, but start fighting like a Wu Shu martial artist. I'd never done Wu Shu before so mentally it was a massive challenge.

Actors always ask their directors what their motivation is in this scene or that scene, so I've always had this joke where I ask the director what my motivation is too. As a stunt person your motivation is usually to fall over a bench or something.

I'm not immune to a lack of confidence or the recognition that I haven't asked for what I deserve or stated what I want.

Gore, like blood and guts and stuff, I am fine. Suspense, I get super sensitive. I can't handle it.

Neverending Story' was one movie I did see when I was a kid. On the little island I grew up on, they put up a sheet in the town hall.

I would love to do a comedy, and I think physical comedy is something I probably have a knack on.

I definitely don't feel like I'm watching ballet during 'Raze.'

I'm basically klutzy.

I used to be afraid of my temper, but it turns out I don't really have one.

Basically, I'd finished doing gymnastics when I was 15, 16, but I'd stayed training because I'd just sort of loved it, and I'd met a man by the name of Peter Bell - no relation - who it turns out was a stuntman in New Zealand.

I stepped away from stunts and into acting right around when stunt people started getting put into motion-capture stuff.

I have come a long way from a girl with pigtails and acne showing up and going, 'Hey guys, I'm here! Where do you want me to fall over?'

As a performer, the more I scare the stunt coordinator, the better.

It's always scarier saying 'No.' As an actress, I can say 'Yes' to more. But sometimes, as a stunt-woman, I have to say 'No.'

I'm not invincible.