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If I die, what a beautiful death.
Passion is the model of all my actions.
Passion is the motto of all my actions.
Life should be lived on the edge of life.
I know it's impossible. But I know I'll do it!
Faith is what replaces doubt in my dictionary.
Limits exist only in the souls of those who do not dream.
It's impossible, that's for sure. So let's start working.
My journey has always been the balance between chaos and order.
Wirewalker, trust your feet! Let them lead you; they know the way.
I am a wire-walker. I can walk any time, anywhere - I'm indestructible.
When you are a young person, the world is yours. You can do the impossible.
I love to remember the World Trade Centre walk, but it should not define me.
My parents wanted me to have an honorable profession and not to be a jester.
I was never part of the sailing circle, but I enjoy when I'm invited to sail.
I focus, I invent, I transform, I challenge, I attempt, I observe, I perform.
My first walk illegally at 20 years old was between the towers of Notre Dame.
I did a walk in 1973 illegally in the northern side of the Sydney Harbor Bridge.
It's very easy to walk on a wire if you spend a whole lifetime practicing for it.
I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.
Every year, I am conscious of the anniversary of my 1974 World Trade Center walk.
If I see three oranges, I have to juggle. And if I see two towers, I have to walk.
It is treacherous on a high wire to change your focus point and suddenly look down.
I walk on the wire; it's my profession, and there are no two high wire walks alike.
There was a time when fire and story would fall asleep in unison. It was dream time.
As a high wire walker, I do not allow myself to 'leave the wire' during a performance.
It's always easy to describe something complex by applying to it an already known label.
Usually, when I walk on a wire, I inspect the anchor point on both sides before crossing.
I've been arrested many times for illegal high wire walking and illegal street performing.
I am a thief of knowledge, and in a survival way, I had to solve all the problems around me.
There is a child inside me that wants to come out and do something to surprise all the adults.
In my life, I wanted to meet certain people. I never met Charlie Chaplin, but I met Werner Herzog.
I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street.
Why does almost every ad agency in the world set the time on a watch at 10:10 before photographing it?
I was in art school once a week from six to 16, which was essential in shaping my artistic sensitivity.
An intellectual challenge presents itself? I am in bliss. Instantly, it brings forth the notion of triumph.
I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the high wire.
I wanted all my life to give my world into other arts - books, plays, movies - but I didn't want to sell out.
I don't have a career, I have a life. Don't think of a career, think about your passion and look for inspiration.
On one day of the week, I relax - which is not true, I work furiously on other things. 'Relax' is not a word to me.
Everybody wanted me to be rich and famous on my art. And I said no to all the commercials and all the seedy offers.
I have been expelled from five different schools when I was a kid. And I learned basically all what I do by myself.
On the high wire, within months, I'm able to master all the tricks they do in the circus, except I am not satisfied.
When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film.
I've frowned at the idea of breaking records, the first one to do something, or do it longer, higher, more difficult.
I have a fear of water, believe it or not. To put a wire 12 feet over a swimming pool frightens me. I don't like water.
I will never fall prey to celebrity because I am too busy. I have other things to do than look at myself in the mirror.
I am not up there by chance. I am there by choice. And I know the wire. And I know my limits. And I am a madman of details.
To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.
I rendezvous with the long wire and perform the 'torero walk', gliding my feet, holding the pole away from my body, head high.