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Hal Needham

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When people say Evel's a stuntmen I want to throw up. He's nothing but a daredevil idiot. The only reason he's famous is because he wrecks his motorcycle every time he rides. - Hal Needham
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I worked as a stuntman on the 'Star Trek' TV series pilot. - Hal Needham
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I'm the one that brought airbags into the stunt world. - Hal Needham
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Coaching a football player is the same as directing an actor. The guy has to follow orders and be able to perform skillfully. - Hal Needham
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I'm too old and too rich to do any more stunts. - Hal Needham
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The song 'Eastbound and Down' by Jerry Reed is, of course, a personal favorite. - Hal Needham
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Stunts have to be meticulously arranged. Choreographed. You could take a fight scene and set it to music. - Hal Needham
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Out of a year, a half-dozen stunts are pretty tough. The rest are kinda routine. To go out and slide cars around and lay a motorcycle down hell, you do that without even thinking. But on the tough things, you put an awful lot of planning into it. - Hal Needham
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When the 55 mph speed limit came in and the oil crisis caused fuel rationing, the truckers began to look like the last American cowboys. - Hal Needham
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You work a lot when you're hurt when you're a good stuntman, because you're going to be hurt quite a bit. And you can't let a sore leg or a bruise or something stop you, so you just take a Percodan and go to work. - Hal Needham
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I was always pushing the limits, going as far as I could. I would do all kinds of crazy things. - Hal Needham
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I was damn sure that I was not going to be a lawyer or a brain surgeon. - Hal Needham
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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 use a ramp, get a running start, dive through head first and maybe throw in a little roll at the end. Doing it that way makes it more spectacular. - Hal Needham
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Anyone who thinks stuntmen are crazy is dead wrong. These guys are calculating. They rig things, they think about different ways of doing it... they're not afraid. - Hal Needham
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There's no such thing as a great stunt if there's no danger involved. - Hal Needham
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The $25,000 stunt was a demonstration of the automobile air bag system for an Allstate Insurance television commercial. I drove a car into a concrete obstacle at 25 m.p.h. - Hal Needham
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For 'Death Car' I had three vehicles for the leading lady, because you never know when something is going to go wrong. You can blow a tire or start spinning around and hit a lamppost. - Hal Needham
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