Zoe Bell Quotes

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.

I love the ‘Lethal Weapon‘ movies.

Usually, what happens with women that aren’t comfortable with fighting is they’re afraid of getting hurt, or hurting someone. All it usually takes to get them going is to make them feel safe, and make them feel like they look cool while doing it. And once they get a little more comfortable, they’re gung ho!

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

I’ve always loved the collaborative side of filmmaking, and there’s a lot of things I can do in the acting side of things in terms of the creating of action sequences, and coming up with ways of doing things with a stunt coordinator.

It never occurred to me that I’m intimidating.

With acting, it’s my job to be emotionally vulnerable and accessible.

Don’t be afraid girls. Power‘s awesome!

It turns out I do okay just playing an angry self-righteous woman.

As a stuntwoman, I never wanted anyone to ever feel afraid for me. I didn’t want anyone to ever feel sorry for me.

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.

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 would say movies all have their own world or reality they’re built in.

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.

Raze’ is a horror/action film and they asked me to get involved when it was just in the developmental stage – they also brought be on board as one of the producers and that is really what drew me to it.

Favorites’ questions are my least liked questions because I’ve never been any good at favorites.

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’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?’

What I’ve had to learn is that I’m also fragile.

It never occurred to me that being a stunt girl would get me recognized in any way, because the whole purpose of a stunt person is to not be known.

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.

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.

I think I’m one of those actors who has come around the backside of something, you know? I came in the backdoor without even realizing that that’s what I was doing.

I grew up on an island without TV.

I think I want to produce action movies.

One of the things I really like about TV is the family, the maintaining of the family camaraderie. Film has it, too, especially when you’re on location. It’s like summer camp. You’ll get really close, really fast. But, then you’ll have to say goodbye.

If it wasn’t for ‘Kill Bill‘ I probably would have been back in New Zealand three months after I left, and if it wasn’t for ‘Death Proof‘ I don’t think I would be pursuing an acting career right now.

I’m not invincible.

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

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

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.

When I was on ‘Xena,’ I remember the sound guy and the director at some point being like, you have to make sounds when you fight, and I was like, what are you talking about? You’re never going to use it. But they hounded me for a good couple of hours, and basically it was, you need to act, you can’t just perform the moves.

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

You’ve just got to know yourself, and know what you’re worth, and know where you’re going, and know that you can always, always learn more.

I’m a fast learner.

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

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

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

I’m basically klutzy.

As a stunt woman, I took it upon myself to be a bit of a jock about it. So you wouldn’t see me vulnerable, you wouldn’t see me hurting or sad because I was there as a professional to do my job. Nobody likes to see a girl get hurt – that’s the truth of it – so I had to put them at ease so they would let me do my job.