David Blaine Quotes

I'm retired from the daredevil business.

I always thought of myself as an amateur stunt man.

I'm like the Ben Affleck of crowd surfing.

I think I'd like to be a lion tamer, actually. That - that would provide the most audience entertainment if something went really badly.

I busted my chin open trying to be Evel Knievel on my bike. When it happened, you could see straight through to the bone, I thought my dad was going to pass out. It left a scar that I still have now.

A good stunt has to have both style and substance. It's a combination of impact and notoriety, the element of danger, technical execution, and the skill of the stunt performer.

I'm riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half-pipe snowboarding. I'm fascinated partly because the sports are so exhilaratingly acrobatic. But I'm also captivated by the fear that a terrible accident might happen at any moment. And accidents do happen.

You don't have to be someone who likes walking a tightrope across the Twin Towers to watch 'Man On Wire.'

I really love Evel Knievel, what he stood for.

Stunts are really fun.

My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'

When drivers are going at their best, trying their hardest, taking chances and doing amazing things, that's what fans love.

I could jump out of this window feet first, which would be the safe way. But the way I'd do it would be to use a ramp, get a running start, dive through head first and maybe throw in a little roll at the end. Doing it that way makes it more spectacular.

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

We're not the first people to climb up something or do a backflip during a set, but we want to do something that gets people's attention.

People wrestle alligators but not once has someone done it without an audience.

Once you know where the roller coaster is going, are you in for the ride?

The thing is to dazzle

I have to show who I am, play with the crowd, play with the camera. When people come to a race, part of it is the anticipation, "What is he going to do?"

The Moulin Rouge is, like the West Village and the Nasdaq, one of those places that people who don't like to take risks come to for the thrill of being on the spot where risks once were taken.

There is a joy in danger.

The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.

Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. Horse races, for instance, are very dangerous. But attempt to design a safe horse and the result is a cow ... It is impossible to be alive and safe.

Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul.