Dacre Montgomery Quotes

I like to fly close to the edge. I like to play with fire.

I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.

In my twenties, I was a huge, insane risk-taker.

I lived for going down the rabbit hole of meeting weird people. Of course, come Monday I would be tallying up all the different situations, and each one was progressively more dangerous. I got lucky in that I didn't go to jail.

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.

I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.

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.

I used to ride motorbikes and drive cars like everything was a racetrack; it was ridiculous. It wasn't because I thought it was cool; it was just because I loved living on the edge. But I've chilled.

I was always the guy who jumped off the roof of the garage, who could climb up the facade of a building.

My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.

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

I don't like taking physical risks at all. I take a lot of emotional risks, and I don't feel like I need to get on a bike or a horse or jump off of anything ever.

Boredom and sexual desire are a potent and explosive combination, and people will certainly risk their lives to exit a grey and boring life.

You want to take a charge from LeBron James coming down the lane with no helmet on - that's dangerous. But you know what? Some people like to do that stuff. So leave them alone.

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

I was kind of wild. I enjoyed myself as a young man. I was moving 100 miles per hour - on and off the field.

I was always pushing the limits, going as far as I could. I would do all kinds of crazy things.

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.

I can't see myself doing something as astonishing as jumping of a chopper. I find it stupid.

I do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I'm up for it.

Nearly everything that was fun, of course, was also a little dangerous: riding roller coasters, skydiving, gambling, sex.

For the satiated, both sex and speed are pretty boring until the element of danger and even death is introduced.

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.

Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own dangers.

Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!... Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading crowds, avoiding collisions, at twenty miles or more an hour, and wondering all the time when you're going to smash up. Well, now, that's something! And then go home again after three hours of it... and then to think that tomorrow I can do it all over again!