I do about 90 percent of my own stunts, and the things I can't do for insurance reasons, like swinging out of a flying helicopter, I wouldn't want to do anyway.
I once wanted to be a stuntman. I was constantly on the front pages when I was a base jumper. But if I were a stuntman, my name would only appear right at the end of the closing credits, even though I'd risked my life for others.
To be a stunt person you kind of have to have a screw loose like you do in wrestling.
I love doing the stunts. It's as simple as that.
There's about one sword-swallower per 2 to 4 million persons in each country.
I love doing stunt stuff and action stuff. I'm not flipping off helicopters; that would be insane.
Everybody has a stunt except me. Every single person has a stunt, but I don't have a stunt, there's nothing. No wire, no pulling. I try to get in on the danger, but there's nothing.
I'm doing some more dangerous stuff on a weekly basis than professional stunt men are doing.
I'm retired from the daredevil business.
I love it in a movie when they throw a guy off a cliff. I love it even when it's not a movie. No, especially when it's not a movie.
I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me.
Any time there's something so ridiculously dangerous that no rational human being would try it, they send for me.' --Garion
The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?
