Stunt Performer

🇺🇸Tom Cruise

Literature

b. 1962

"Sex is about the connection. Great sex is a by-product, for me, of a great relationship, where you have communication and it's an extension of that. Where it's just free. And that's how it should be. It's spectacular."

🇺🇸Harry Houdini

Literature

1874–1926

"I'm tired of fighting, Dash. I guess this thing is going to get me."

🇺🇸Bruce Lee

Entertainment

1940–1973

"Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, unrhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go."

🇺🇸Vin Diesel

Entertainment

b. 1967

"A person in my position has to restrain himself."

🇺🇸Jackie Chan

Literature

b. 1954

"More than 120 takes. Those kinds of things ... You "Wow, Jackie's good." It's not good. You can do it. Except, do you have the patience or not?"

🇺🇸Buster Keaton

Entertainment

Stoic

1895–1966

"The Lyric Poet Of The Silent Screen: A Profile of Buster Keaton by Chris Wood"

🇺🇸Harold Lloyd

Literature

1893–1971

"My humor was never cruel or cynical. I just took life and poked fun at it. We made it so it could be understood the world over, without language barriers. We seem to have conquered the time barrier, too."

"You'll find, young Jim, that there are two measures of a man. Only two. What he will die for...and what he will kill for. You made your choice aboard the Hispaniola."

🇺🇸Ricou Browning

Entertainment

1930–2023

"I get fan mail almost every day, and lots of calls from people who say, "We’re having a party. Could you bring your rubber suit over and jump in the pool and scare everybody?."

🇺🇸Chris Pontius

Literature

b. 1974

"Some people just don't know how to party."

🇯🇵Haruo Nakajima

Entertainment

1929–2017

"I based the choreography I did for WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS on the techniques of professional wrestlers. I think it turned out very well."

🇺🇸Brandon DiCamillo

Entertainment

b. 1976

"I would do anything for corn." "Well I think corn just did something for you."

🇺🇸Steve-O

Entertainment

b. 1974

"Being a vegan, caring about animals … all this compassion in my lifestyle is the reward in and of itself."

"Most contortionists are very serious. I was a clown first. I was born a ridiculous human being, and then I get to do this for a living. I love my job, and aside from contortion, I have all-around circus skills."

🇺🇸Burt Ward

Entertainment

b. 1945

"Bruce Lee’s first filmed fight scene of his career, was fighting me as Robin on Batman. Because we were friends, we sparred together,"

🇫🇷David Belle

Entertainment

b. 1973

"If someone puts you in front of a 30m high wall, tells you to get over it, and then comes back two years later and you're still there, you've made no progress. You should find another wall."

🇬🇧Trevor Baylis

Technology

appropriate technology

1937–2018

"The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress. As long as you've got slightly more perception that the average wrapped loaf, you could invent something."