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" I have been expelled from five different schools when I was a kid. And I learned basically all what I do by myself. "

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" As a high wire walker, I do not allow myself to 'leave the wire' during a performance. "

" I love to remember the World Trade Centre walk, but it should not define me. "

" It would be very, very dangerous for a wire walker to experience fear while he is balancing on the wire. Fear has its place on earth, before and maybe after a high-wire walk, but not during for me. "

" I walk on the wire; it's my profession, and there are no two high wire walks alike. "

" I was never part of the sailing circle, but I enjoy when I'm invited to sail. "

" Faith is what replaces doubt in my dictionary. "

" When a loved one disappears, you continue to live with the accompaniment of that person. One has to find a balance between joy and sorrow. "

" You see, it's actually very good that a human activity is performed very close to death, because that's where life is. Life is, at its most valuable and most full, very close to the boundary of life. "

" When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film. "

" I love or hate things straight away. I like to go directly to action to see the result. I think I must be difficult, but at the same time, it's not for me to say. "

" On a very long and very high wire, I will not hope to not be blown off by high winds. I will have the certitude that such could not happen. "

" Obsessed people are not humorless at all. "

" I focus, I invent, I transform, I challenge, I attempt, I observe, I perform. "

" Right after my Twin Towers walk, I was approached by hundreds of people, and I said no to all the offers. I could have become a millionaire overnight, obviously, but I said no, and I continue to be uninterested. "

" I would not describe my personality. And I think when you describe people, you are making a mistake. That's not how they are; that's how you perceive them at that moment. It's limiting in front of something that is magnificent and unlimited: life. "

" When I was six years old, I fell in love with magic. For Christmas, I got a magic box and a very old book on card manipulation. Somehow, I was more interested in pure manipulation than in all the silly little tricks in the box. "

" Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living. "

" It's part of my life to feel like a criminal, to have eyes in my back and see if I'm being followed. It's a feeling that comes from street juggling because I have been arrested so many times. "

" It's very normal - when you're not used to the world of the high wire, it's very normal to be simply terrified. The reason I'm not is because I've done it for so many years. "

" I have a fear of water, believe it or not. To put a wire 12 feet over a swimming pool frightens me. I don't like water. "

" I have been performing in the street for more than 50 years: magic for basically 60 years, and the high wire 45 years. The beauty of it is that it's never the same. It's never easy. And yet, part of my art is to make it look easy. "

" The wire is a safe place for me to be. The street is not. Life is not. It's a rigorous and simple path. It's straight. You don't have meanders like, you know, on the ground, in life. "

" For years, I have been working on crossing the Grand Canyon. Actually, there is nobody who says 'no,' but since this is a project that comes from me and not a commission, I have to find the money, plan the logistics, etcetera. "

" Notre Dame and Sydney - that was nothing. Notre Dame doesn't have a police station; it is not 1,000 or so feet high. It was a public structure, very easy to access. And Sydney Harbour Bridge was half-and-half: a bridge, in the middle of the night. The World Trade Center was the end of the world. Electronic devices, police dogs. "

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

" I started very early, from five or six years old, to climb. To climb trees, to climb rocks everywhere I could. At some point, of course, I used a rope. "

" On one day of the week, I relax - which is not true, I work furiously on other things. 'Relax' is not a word to me. "

" I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street. "

" I needed more knowledge in rigging and knotting. I started collecting books on knots and really learning more and more. That's how it started. And also in magic, of course. With a piece of rope, you can do magic. "