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Definition of Stunt

Stunt

A feat hard to perform; an act which is striking for the skill, strength, or the like, required to do it; a feat.

To hinder from growing to the natural size; to prevent the growth of; to stint, to dwarf; as, to stunt a child; to stunt a plant.

A check in growth; also, that which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing.

Specifically: A whale two years old, which, having been weaned, is lean, and yields but little blubber.

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Stunt Quotations

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
Plato

Well one of the times I did a stunt was in the devil's snare room and they lifted me up on a harness and a safety rope really, really high, and they just dropped me down into the devil's snare.
Rupert Grint

I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.
Jackie Chan

One time they traded me for seven horses. Seven stunt horses.
James Stewart

I remember hitting Sarah Michelle Gellar with a right hook during my first week on the job. It was awful. They usually pair actors with stunt doubles to avoid things like that.
Eliza Dushku

We don't move on in the stunt unless it looks like a hit. So when I see it on TV, I'm generally satisfied that people are going to buy it.
Victoria Pratt

So there was always a stunt coordinator on those films that was from Stunts Unlimited and I was just one of the young warriors from Stunts Unlimited that got to be a part of it because it was a big show and they needed a lot of guys.
David R. Ellis

I wish I could be behind the wheel for every stunt.
Paul Walker

I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won't let me do. Like they won't set fire to me. They won't like let me jump off a 20 story building. There are certain big stunts that it's just impossible to get insurance to let me do, but for the most part I'd say I do probably 75% of my stuff.
Alex O'Loughlin

I don't remember the first stunt I ever did.
Johnny Knoxville

When you're fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss.
Victoria Pratt

Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt.
Tony Randall

I do most of my own stunts because the stunt guys show me how.
Casper Van Dien

I don't get a chance to do many of my own stunts on 'Buffy' - none of us do. We have amazing stunt people who make us all look really believable and really good.
Emma Caulfield

Since very early in my career, I have always did my own stunt fighting.
Brion James

An actor would be foolish to do something that might hold up the picture, or more importantly incapacitate him. If an actor does do a stunt he needs to make sure a stunt man stands by to see that it's done correctly.
Glenn Ford

I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work.
Verne Troyer

I haven't done a lot of action movies, so it's kind of fun to get to do a lot of stunt work.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar

And getting stunt coordinator Dan Bradley and everybody from the whole 'Bourne Supremacy' crew, I think was real cool for our film because we do a bunch of really big jumps in this movie.
Sean William Scott

There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne, the great master swordsman and brilliant stunt double.
Ian McDiarmid

The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It's really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they're actually really happy, good- natured people.
Miranda Otto

Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
Verne Troyer

The scenes in the show were filmed with a crew of really excellent stunt jumpers, but we had the feel of the parachutes, so we could be more realistic in the roles.
Ken Curtis

Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is.
Nigel Kneale

I don't do stunts and I don't think many actors do. For an actor to say they do their own stunts I don't think is very respectful of the profession of stunt men and women.
Nick Stahl

Repetition on things like that becomes quite painful. If you do a stunt sometimes it can look like a stunt.
Marton Csokas

As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
Sam Neill

I was a stunt man for 35 years.
Richard Farnsworth

If I'm going to fly for more than twenty feet it's generally a good idea to get a stunt guy.
Joe Flanigan

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Stunt Translations

stunt in Spanish is atrofiar

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