Philippe Petit Quotes

I have been performing in the street for more than 50 years: magic for basically 60 years, and the high wire 45 years. The beauty of it is that it's never the same. It's never easy. And yet, part of my art is to make it look easy.

Philippe Petit

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• Now is the only thing that exists.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Now
  • Only
  • The Only Thing

• The 100m taught me a lot and it's given me confidence.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • Me
  • Confidence
  • Given

• Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • Time
  • Music
  • Money

• I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Experience
  • Theater
  • Cinema

• I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'

  

  Daniel Curtis Lee
  • Think
  • Like
  • Young

• I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Sometimes
  • Movies
  • Superhero

• If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Money
  • You
  • Looking

• I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Up
  • Good
  • Real

• In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Character
  • Army
  • United States

• Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Work
  • Responsibility
  • Waiting

• Over the years, I have realized that there's more to a film's fate than just good acting and a solid script. It needs to be marketed well. It's the package that sells - the songs, action, actors, etc.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Good
  • Action
  • Fate

• Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Lost
  • Feet
  • Ground

• I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Up
  • Job
  • Small

• I will take the subway and look at certain women and think 'God, that woman's story will never be told. How come that lady doesn't get a movie about her?'

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • God
  • Women
  • Movie

• I'm on 'Dancing with the Stars' because I want to prove my sister wrong. My sister literally told the world that I could not dance, so I have to redeem myself.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • World
  • Dance
  • Sister

• When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Question
  • Never

• In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Good
  • Reality
  • Rare

• I always encourage people to get out there, travel the world, see new things, experience new people, experience new food, experience new culture. What happens is that helps you to grow and be your best self.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • People
  • World
  • Experience

• I had the poster of 'Hairspray' right above my bed. And I had the biggest crush on Zac Efron, of course.

  

  Dove Cameron
  • Crush

• It seems everybody has been somehow affected by cancer, either through a relative or a close friend or somewhere, and they know how devastating cancer can be. And they see me, and I refuse to let it affect how I live and what I do.

  

  Craig Sager
  • Live
  • Friend
  • Cancer

• I would say I was still a Marxist - which is not to be confused with being a Communist. Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.

  

  Alexei Sayle
  • World
  • Confused

• In London, what I do on the weekend is be a person and have my own life. In Paris, it is going from this hotel to the office and back again. But I love it.

  

  Jonathan Anderson
  • Life
  • Paris
  • Weekend

• I have been performing in the street for more than 50 years: magic for basically 60 years, and the high wire 45 years. The beauty of it is that it's never the same. It's never easy. And yet, part of my art is to make it look easy.

  

  Philippe Petit
  • Art
  • High
  • Magic