Keith Barry Quotes

Stunts are my favourite - I love it: the feeling, the adrenaline when all the cameras are rolling and everyone is watching and crowd round.

I thrive on the pressure. I love it. I love the fear factor that goes with it. Perhaps it's strange, but that's just me.

I'm a teen boy, so I like seeing blood and guts. I know it's fake, but I'm having fun.

You can't be a playwright without believing there's an audience for adventurous work.

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes.

Skydiving is a rush. Doing it naked could be more of a rush, but it's nothing I would ever consider.

There is a percentage of people who want to be a little bit outside their comfort zone and I am one of them, someone who lives on the edge.

I love pushing my boundaries and seeing how far I can go without, you know, dying or injuring myself too badly. On set I was like, 'Give me some stunts! Give me whatever you want. Throw it at me. I want to do it all.'

To an extreme athlete, there's a certain appeal to doing extreme things - seeking the most extreme physical challenges in some of the most extreme climates in the world. Testing and expanding the limits of human endurance is kind of my thing.

I like the edge of danger.

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

The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.

And I think I'm an adrenaline junkie, and there's nothing that will spike your adrenaline more than sitting in a theater and listen to an audience react to something you've written.

We're so afraid to lose the audience. Let the audience go.

It's not that I don't value my life. It's just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line.

I think I'm actually much too shy to do any performance art. I admire the big swings those guys take, but I'm not a one-man band.

I tend to make bolder and more interesting choices after I've done theatre.

The good ones push their luck to the limit - like Laurence Oliver. As actor and director, he will go just as far as he can.

High risk is high adrenaline.

I felt good when I did a stunt, and if it was really dangerous - like if I got out on a horse or a bull that was rank, or jumped out of this building on a bag - I felt great.

I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.

It's like you get a high off the jumps, and you crave it, and you want to do it again and again and again.

My first gigs were at university: I'd dress up as Jesus, jump off a cross and dance to a Mick Jagger song. I don't know if it was funny or not, but it was a start.

You can get bored up there on stage, night after night. But it's an open forum where you can get away with almost anything, so you might as well do it.