Zoe Bell
Zoe Bell

You've just got to know yourself, and know what you're worth, and know where you're going, and know that you can always, always learn more.

Zoe Bell
Zoe Bell

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.

Zoe Bell
Zoe Bell

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.'

Zoe Bell
Zoe Bell

This may sound conceited, but the more predominant the role, the more comfortable I am on set.

Zoe Bell
Zoe Bell

I'm basically klutzy.

Zoe Bell
Zoe Bell

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

Zoe Bell
Zoe Bell

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.

Zoe Bell
Zoe Bell

Work wise, as a stunt woman, I enjoy telly - or TV - because - and, as an actor - I kind of enjoy the urgency of it. I enjoy the problem-solving that's happening. Right now, we don't have time to rehearse for hours. And, if something goes wrong, we don't have time to shoot something else for four days until we sort it out.

Zoe Bell
Zoe Bell

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.

Zoe Bell
Zoe Bell

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.'

Zoe Bell
Zoe Bell

It's not easy, acting.

Zoe Bell
Zoe Bell

I think I have a pretty decent business savvy, when I give myself room to.

Zoe Bell
Zoe Bell

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.'

Zoe Bell
Zoe Bell

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

Zoe Bell
Zoe Bell

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

Zoe Bell
Zoe Bell

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

Zoe Bell
Zoe Bell

I'm still nervous every time I act. I'm not when I'm doing stunts.

Zoe Bell
Zoe Bell

I've worked with horses on and off most of my life, but literally 'on and off' - flipping on them and falling off them.

Zoe Bell
Zoe Bell

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.

Zoe Bell
Zoe Bell

I grew up on an island without TV.