My great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, was my biggest hero in life, my biggest inspiration behind everything I do.
the sensation of trying to escape... but never being able to... i'm sure i felt that... that's... death
I'm often very relaxed when I'm on the wire. There may be some tears because this is a dream of mine.
I'm one of those people who always tries to overachieve. I want to do more. I want to do bigger things.
I was weaned on chicken-fried steak and hominy grits with goopy gravy all over. I loved meat and wore fur.
I see lines of space. I break things down into lines and space, and I balance.
By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life.
I have never in my life walked with a harness. The weight of the tether, makes it feel like I'm dragging an anchor behind me.
I have a lot of offers to play for appearance fees. It's nice gravy, but it's not a big motivating factor for me, to go here and there just for money.
I started walking a wire when I was 2 years old, and this has been a dream of mine to recreate this walk.
Steven Fry on The Da Vinci Code- "It is complete loose stoolwater. It is arse-gravy of the worst kind.
I'm good at anything that's country - biscuits, gravy, chicken-fried steak. Look at me, for God's sake. I cook what I like to eat.
I need a bone saw—for the meatloaf I made for you, which looks suspiciously like a brick. The gravy is a blanket.
I brush my teeth with a leg of fried chicken, and gravy is my toothpaste.
It's Niagara Falls. It's one of the most beautiful natural wonders in the world. Who wouldn't want to walk across it?
We train very hard under windy conditions. I've actually walked a wire in my backyard with 90-mile-an-hour winds.
One thing that I pride myself on is, everything that I do is completely legit. We go through every channel, and do it the proper way.
Every walk that I do, there's obstacles in the way. There's always somebody or something that comes across negative, but I live for that sort of thing.
I'm facing Niagara Falls - the wind and the mist and the dark and the peregrine falcons - and I'm going to stay focused on the other side.
I bought a crystal ball, and I wanted to use it, but I didn't know how, and I wouldn't use it until I developed a technique to use it that was truthful.
Meat is a big deal in my life. I do love breakfast food, but I don't think that's extraordinary. I'm a normal American. We love eggs and meat and potatoes and gravy.
