Zoe Bell

“I love the 'Lethal Weapon' movies.”

“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 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.'”

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

“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.”

“With acting, it's my job to be emotionally vulnerable and accessible.”

“I'm basically klutzy.”

“I don't like hitting people in the face.”

“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.”

“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'm pretty comfortable on any set where I have something to do.”

“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.”

“What I've had to learn is that I'm also fragile.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I never thought about being an actor.”

“No one has ever seen me as feminine.”

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