Zoe Bell Quotes

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Zoe Bell

Profession : Actress

Birth : November 17, 1978

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.

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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.

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

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When you're falling through space time has no meaning.

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I don't like hitting people in the face.

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It's not until after you've been hit by a car and landed all right that the fear kicks in.

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When I'm a stunt woman on a movie, I'm strictly a 'Yes sir,' girl... But acting puts more in your hands, and producing gives you more control still.

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I'm not invincible.

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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.'

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

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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?'

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

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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.

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I met this group of stunt people and it was like, I had found family instantly. We're all a variety of different personalities, but whatever that mutual joy or appreciation of the work is, I'd not felt it like that before. It was, 'Yeah, I'd like to do this forever.'

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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.

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My becoming an actor was a massive shift for me, and a terrifying one.

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

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I don't surround myself with a lower quality of human.

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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.

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

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