Quotes of: High-wire Keyword

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

Philippe Petit

I walk on the wire; it's my profession, and there are no two high wire walks alike.

Philippe Petit

It would be very, very dangerous for a wire walker to experience fear while he is balancing on the wire. Fear has its place on earth, before and maybe after a high-wire walk, but not during for me.

Philippe Petit

Wirewalker, trust your feet! Let them lead you; they know the way.

To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers

On a very long and very high wire, I will not hope to not be blown off by high winds. I will have the certitude that such could not happen.

Philippe Petit

That’s the thing about being young we are textbook pages of trial and error falling down and getting up not by way of standing and brushing off our jeans buy by laying where we fell until we were high enough to forget

High Wire Darlings

I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage. That's why they call me a high wire artist.

Philippe Petit

It is treacherous on a high wire to change your focus point and suddenly look down.

Philippe Petit

Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.

Christine Baranski

Death frames the high wire. But I don't see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.

Philippe Petit

Acting still rings my bell as much as it did in high school. Plus, I can now indulge my interests as a producer as well. My work is more fun than fun but, best of all, it's still very scary. You are always walking some kind of high wire.

Tom Hanks

I've been arrested many times for illegal high wire walking and illegal street performing.

Philippe Petit

Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the excitement?

Douglas Wilson

I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.

Philippe Petit

I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the high wire.

Philippe Petit

The greatest thing about the call-in show is that you always felt like you were on a high wire without a net.

Brian Lamb

On the high wire, within months, I'm able to master all the tricks they do in the circus, except I am not satisfied.

Philippe Petit

I rendezvous with the long wire and perform the 'torero walk', gliding my feet, holding the pole away from my body, head high.

Philippe Petit

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.

Billy Joel

The great thing about theater is that you have so much time to prepare, and to fail, before presenting it to the public. In film, the high-wire act seems to be that much farther up, and the net seems to be less there.

Chris Pine

You're out there on a high wire without a net, and that's the way actors operate. They have to be fearless about how they work and they have to create a life for the audience in 90 minutes and make them believe.

Charles Durning