Philippe Petit Quotes

As a high wire walker, I do not allow myself to 'leave the wire' during a performance.

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• If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Job
  • Think
  • Right

• I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Time
  • Kind
  • Never

• There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Art
  • Like
  • Modern

• I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • Character
  • Job

• I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Weird
  • Sad
  • Look

• I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Musician
  • Singer
  • Untraine

• I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Career
  • Passion
  • Gift

• What's great about working on a sitcom is that I spend so much time with people who are in other fields as well, such as writing, directing, and/or camera operating. Being on set is like being on a playground. I go from one thing to the next, and I've learned so much and hope to continue learning.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Time
  • Music
  • Believe

• The devil made me do it.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Me
  • Made
  • Devil

• I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Done
  • Proud
  • Said

• You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Long
  • Support
  • Passion

• The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Life
  • Character
  • Desire

• I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Band
  • Greatest
  • Planet

• If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • You
  • Well
  • Bath

• It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Great
  • Moving
  • Feel

• When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and sees that somebody gets paid what they're worth.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Free
  • Like
  • Market

• Men create the gods in their own image.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Men
  • Create
  • Own

• Since 'Huckleberry Finn,' or thereabouts, it seemed that all American literature was about the alienated hero.

  

  Bobbie Ann Mason
  • American
  • Literature
  • Hero

• Keep in my mind my dad didn't become a huge, huge mega actor until I was halfway through high school - so right around the time he's going through his big renaissance is right when I'm starting to do my high school revolting.

  

  Colin Hanks
  • Time
  • Mind
  • School

• I surrender to my directors. I do that because I respect them immensely. In fact, a director's talent scares me. I admit that they're more intelligent than me, and I submit to that, as an assistant director does. Even when I have suggestions to make, I don't state them strongly.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Respect
  • Intelligent
  • Talent

• To be a good musician, you need to give people what they want, what they need.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • People
  • Good

• And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • God
  • Men

• As a high wire walker, I do not allow myself to 'leave the wire' during a performance.

  

  Philippe Petit
  • High