I'm a very coordinated individual.
— Zoe Bell
I used to be afraid of my temper, but it turns out I don't really have one.
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'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 never was fanatical about films when I was younger.
I did drama at school and when I was doubling Xena, one time for my birthday mom and dad bought me an acting course 'cause I've always liked the performance side of anything.
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.
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 definitely don't feel like I'm watching ballet during 'Raze.'
I've always appreciated great acting performances, but I've even learned to appreciate not so great ones 'cause it's hard.
When I'm not focused, I'm quite possibly one of the more clumsy people on the planet. I'll walk into doorways and coffee tables.
If you can fight in high heels, you can walk in high heels.
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.
No one has ever seen me as feminine.
As a stunt girl I've done most varieties of female fight action.
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.
If you give anything less than 120% as an actor then you end up looking uncomfortable.
I got a pair of roller skates for Christmas when I was 4 or 5 or something, so I had a pair as kid. But I also lived on a gravel road so I wasn't really skating up and down the street.
I think I have a pretty decent business savvy, when I give myself room to.
I think I want to produce action movies.
I love the 'Lethal Weapon' movies.
I grew up on an island without TV.
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.
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.
I would love to do a comedy, and I think physical comedy is something I probably have a knack on.
I'm basically klutzy.
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.
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.
Well, I did two lines on a TV show called 'Cleopatra 2525' really badly with an American accent; it was terrible!
I had done maybe three lines of dialogue, ever, before doing 'Death Proof.'
I'm a fast learner.
I would say movies all have their own world or reality they're built in.
I have done a lot of prosthetics throughout my career so I am used to it.
I'm still nervous every time I act. I'm not when I'm doing stunts.
Don't be afraid girls. Power's awesome!
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'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?'
Favorites' questions are my least liked questions because I've never been any good at favorites.
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.'
I was injured at the end of 'Kill Bill.' I hit the ground, instead of hitting the mat, pretty hard and busted my ribs and had to have surgery. I was being blown out of a trailer in a harness and actually landed on my coordinator instead - who broke my fall a little! My arm smacked into the ground and obliterated one of the ligaments.
Gore, like blood and guts and stuff, I am fine. Suspense, I get super sensitive. I can't handle it.
I don't know, I'm still a little bit like, when you blend CGI well with real life, it's impressive, but if you remove real life completely, I still get pulled out of the movie a bit.
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 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.
I've worked with horses on and off most of my life, but literally 'on and off' - flipping on them and falling off them.
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.
It never occurred to me that I'm intimidating.
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.
For all the hundreds of scripts that are out there, there's not that many that are amazing.
I am very, very painfully human.
