Kevin Jorgeson Quotes

I was always very active as a kid. I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open.

When I was a kid, I would do stupid things on my bike. I'd jump any ramp, I'd jump over people, I'd jump over things - always crashing, never hurting myself badly but always wanting to take physical risks.

Growing up, I absolutely loved skateboarding and dirt bike riding with my brother and the neighborhood kids.

I never rode a bull - I'm not that stupid.

With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds.

I came to San Antonio, and it's known for the River Walk. So I was just doing some sightseeing, I looked at the bridge and I thought, 'Man, if I do a flip off this bridge, that would be super-cool.' I don't recommend anybody jump off that bridge.

The East Village is where I cut my teeth as a kid. I ran around here on a skateboard.

The world is just waiting to be skated.

The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.

To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicago's second city of garages was my young life's passion.

When we played Paris, the English punks would come over, and they got to know the French punks. There was some nice scenes in the back alleys.

I was a wild kid. I was left to climb trees. And you know those railways logs, they piled them up, six feet apart, and I'd jump from one to the other. Without a safety net! I was an incredible tomboy.

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

I remember going to the East Village for the first time as a fifteen-year-old and going to Tompkins Square Park. That really seemed like a pretty edgy thing to do.

Me and my mates go free running all the time. It's not my mum's favourite sport. I've probably jumped four metres on to grass and two metres between buildings. It's nothing like you see on the Internet, with guys jumping off skyscrapers, but it's fun.

I broke my jaw jumping, and I broke my back and my neck in the downhill. This is normal for me.

In high school I used to go coast to coast all the time at 6-11.

We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckless kid.

When I was 4 years old I used to draw on the sidewalk with broken brick.

To be a stunt person you kind of have to have a screw loose like you do in wrestling.

What's skateable is limitless by design.

The reason why some people love to engage in dangerous activities, such as mountain climbing, car racing, and so on, although they may not be aware of it, is that it forces them into the Now - that intensely alive state that is free of time, free of problems, free of thinking, free of the burden of the personality.

The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?

I've done things to my body, mechanically, that I'll never do again. I've done stunts that I shouldn't have done 10, 11, 12 times. I've broken a ton of bones on sets.