Harry Houdini Quotes

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.

All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

I'm not in this sport to take punishment.

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.

If I'm going to fly for more than twenty feet it's generally a good idea to get a stunt guy.

I get enough sleep. I take very good care of myself. Growing up as a dancer, you know your body so well, you know what to do to overcome something.

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

If you don't finish a day of stunts with a lot of bruises, you feel like you haven't done it right.

I do freestyle jumping. Been doing since I was eight years old and can't quit. I'm addicted. I've broken many bones, but I ride with confidence. It's my thing - there's no high on earth like it. It's my hobby and I really enjoy it.

Moderation is never something I've been good at.

I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.

I put my life in danger every time I do some of these demonstrations, whether it's in the audience hanging upside down or on the stage. We now have a lot of dangerous stunts where anything can go wrong. In fact, I have fallen two stories and landed on the stage, so I am well aware of the dangers.

I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.

I've kind of banned myself from motorcycles. I've had broken ribs, broken shoulder, wrists, leg, broken collarbone - and it was all from motocross or rugby. All of my injuries have come from outside of sailing.

You know those days when you think you have to have a plate of pasta right now? When I'm trying to be good, I take a minute to ask myself, 'Do you really need to eat all this crazy stuff? It will still be around if you want it later.'

If you feel pain, you have to make up your mind whether you can play with it or not.

Sport doesn't work on knee-jerk reactions.

It's no good playing through pain if you're damaging yourself.

No matter how tired I am, or whether I have injured my back or neck while shooting, I don't ever miss the gym.

You can deal with a little pain. It's just about making sure you can throw the ball good enough to go out there and help your team.

One thing I thought of, I call it By Sea, By Land, By Foot. It'd be a 100-mile paddle, a 100-mile run, and a 100-mile bike, back-to-back-to-back. But I don't want to end up in the hospital.

I do not like getting hit. I can take a hit, but I don't want to damage my brain if I don't have to.

Everything we do in general, there's gonna be a percentage of risk. Me, making my entrance to the ring, there's actually a percentage of risk I'm going to trip and fall and hurt myself. Me, getting up on the apron, there's a percentage of risk.

When you see a guy flying into the air on fire, that's not me, obviously. I do all the water tricks, though.