Stunts have to be meticulously arranged. Choreographed. You could take a fight scene and set it to music. — Hal Needham Copy Share Image
Hell, if I didn't do stunts, I'd have had to be a bartender, or something else that didn't pay well. — Hal Needham Copy Share Image
Is there fear? No, there isn't. Now, I've made mistakes. I've broken 56 bones in my body, and each one was a… — Hal Needham Copy Share Image
I've done stunts when I was hurting so bad I couldn't hardly breathe and yet I would go ahead and do it. — Hal Needham Copy Share Image
I'd always been a good athlete and I liked getting paid what they paid you for stunts. In those days, they paid… — Hal Needham Copy Share Image
I'm not a big fan of CGI. When I look at it, I go: 'Wait a minute. That's not possible.' And I… — Hal Needham Copy Share Image
There's a standard pay scale for stunts. The more difficult the stunt, the more money involved. But if I'm the only stuntman… — Hal Needham Copy Share Image
When I came in, Westerns were the big thing, so I did horse falls, transfers, bulldogs, big fights. That's where you could… — Hal Needham Copy Share Image
Out of a year, a half-dozen stunts are pretty tough. The rest are kinda routine. To go out and slide cars around… — Hal Needham Copy Share Image
If you read books forever and ever, they will never replace what really counts - that's practical experience. — Hal Needham Copy Share
Audiences want Burt, John Wayne and others to go on doing the same thing forever. It's critics and the actors themselves who want actors… — Hal Needham Copy Share
There's a standard pay scale for stunts. The more difficult the stunt, the more money involved. But if I'm the only stuntman who can… — Hal Needham Copy Share
Trying to get it together with me as a director was impossible. No one wanted to work with me. — Hal Needham Copy Share
'Death Car' was shot on a freeway that's under construction. It's called 'Chips' Freeway' because it's where they shoot the NBC series. We bring… — Hal Needham Copy Share
Hell, if I didn't do stunts, I'd have had to be a bartender, or something else that didn't pay well. — Hal Needham Copy Share
As far as I know, there is only one other director who was a stuntman - guy named Chuck Bail who directed 'Gumball Rally.'… — Hal Needham Copy Share
I could jump out of this window feet first, which would be the safe way. But the way I'd do it would be to… — Hal Needham Copy Share
We try to reduce the danger to a minimum, of course. And then we prepare for accidents with alternate plans. For instance, if I'm… — Hal Needham Copy Share
You've gotta be careful. People don't want to be reminded of Vietnam and Korea. We lost thousands of fine young men and didn't win… — Hal Needham Copy Share
I just knew it would get a big laugh when people saw the 'Flying Nun' throwing the bird to a highway patrolman. — Hal Needham Copy Share
I have a country-boy sense of humor. I come from a poor family, and I have no education. But I am Middle America, and… — Hal Needham Copy Share
Here's the thing that I think really pushed me, was my versatility. Because when I came in to the movie business, all the stunt… — Hal Needham Copy Share
