Luke Hemsworth Quotes

I've swam with great white sharks.

Turns out, I couldn't catch them - or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out.

People don't need to be scared. I tickle sharks. I do, when they swim by.

Many people continue to think of sharks as man-eating beasts. Sharks are enormously powerful and wild creatures, but you're more likely to be killed by your kitchen toaster than a shark!

Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.

A great white jumped into my cage when I was diving in South Africa. Half its body was in the cage, and it was snapping at me.

I am not someone who will cancel plans because of personal danger, because I'm really not afraid.

Sharks freak me out.

I am sufficiently wary of dangerous situations, but I'm not scared of having a go.

Life has to be dangerous.

I love to take risks and see how I cope with the situation.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

I've never been afraid of much, and like any normal kid, I liked to push the limits of what I could do.

For a photographer, sharks are a stirring subject, possessing a perfect blend of grace and power. They have been sculpted by evolution and are ideally suited for whichever ecosystem they inhabit, from coral reefs to the open ocean.

The Oceanic White Tip is considered one of the most dangerous sharks in the sea along with the Great White and Tiger. It is responsible for some of the most famous episodes of man-eating in history, such as when the U.S.S. Indianapolis sank in 1945.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.

Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

Life is to be entered upon with courage.

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

I think I'm just more adaptable now, so danger, overall, seems less dangerous to me.

Sharks will scare me. I went out to Malibu a couple of weeks ago. Beautiful, clear day, out in five feet of water, going to surf, and there was this big ol' freakin' leopard shark... I'm looking at him and I'm thinking, 'OK, he won't hurt me.'

I swam with my first shark in the 1980s. I was 20 miles off the coast of Rhode Island, working with a group of marine scientists. Late in the day, a 5-foot long blue shark swam into our chum slick. For the next hour, I marveled at the animal's stunning indigo color and the elegant way she moved effortlessly through the sea.

Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence.

I think great whites are the most beautiful and perfect creatures I've ever seen.