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" My first walk illegally at 20 years old was between the towers of Notre Dame. "

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

" Talking about theater, actually, I built a little barn in upstate New York, and I call it 'the smallest theater in the world,' but it has a mini stage and a red velvet curtain. "

" If I am practicing on the wire, and you pushed me, I would not move, and if you take a piece of wood and beat me up on the shoulder and the head, I would not move. You would not put me out of balance. You would not be able to. I am solid as granite when I am on the tight rope, and I should be. "

" My time is always divided when I prepare for a wire walk. First I dream, technically and artistically, and then I go to work, and I am the master rigger, climbing trees and ladders and constructing. Only then I change my cap and become the performer. "

" My journey has always been the balance between chaos and order. "

" 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 started putting a wire up in secret and performing without permission. Notre Dame, the Sydney Harbor Bridge, the World Trade Center. And I developed a certitude, a faith that convinced me that I will get safely to the other side. If not, I will never do that first step. "

" An intellectual challenge presents itself? I am in bliss. Instantly, it brings forth the notion of triumph. "

" Metaphorically speaking, of course, if I put a problem behind my pillow and fall asleep, very often because my brain went to sleep with that idea or the problem alive, very often in the middle of the night I wake up, and I wake up with a solution or with a direction of solution. "

" If I see three oranges, I have to juggle. And if I see two towers, I have to walk. "

" Certainly, in the story of my life, the walk between the Twin Towers was one of the grandest, one of the most memorable, but not solely the grandest and the most memorable. "

" 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. "

" I keep saying I am an auto-didact, but I have a lot of outside influences. One I could cite is juggler Francis Brunn, who was the first man to throw ten rings in the air; he was really an amazing juggler who showed onstage the quest for perfection. "

" My parents were intelligent and encouraging, but at the same time, they were displeased at me becoming a wandering troubadour and wire walker. "

" I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the high wire. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I was learning by myself, despite my parents, despite my teachers, despite society, when I was fighting for building my life as a young wire walker at age 16, I didn't have feelings, I had certainties. "

" 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. "

" Truly, from a very early age, I started distancing myself from other kids, not out of willingness, but just out of the nature of my energy. I liked to do things solely, and I already had a taste of the quest for perfection, which is unusual in a little kid. "

" I would like to continue to tell stories of what I did in a biographical way, so I will continue to write. "

" On the high wire, within months, I'm able to master all the tricks they do in the circus, except I am not satisfied. "

" 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. "

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

" There was a time when fire and story would fall asleep in unison. It was dream time. "

" Faith is what replaces doubt in my dictionary. "

" Obsessed people are not humorless at all. "

" My parents wanted me to have an honorable profession and not to be a jester. "

" This moment where we think we rest, when the brain is floating, you know, in sleep, is actually a moment where I could be very creative in a very strange, uncontrolled way. "

" 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. "