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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" Passion is the motto of all my actions. "

" It is treacherous on a high wire to change your focus point and suddenly look down. "

" 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. "

" I am not up there by chance. I am there by choice. And I know the wire. And I know my limits. And I am a madman of details. "

" I rendezvous with the long wire and perform the 'torero walk', gliding my feet, holding the pole away from my body, head high. "

" 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. "

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

" There is a child inside me that wants to come out and do something to surprise all the adults. "

" I will never fall prey to celebrity because I am too busy. I have other things to do than look at myself in the mirror. "

" Many people use the words 'death defying' or 'death wishing' when they talk about wire-walking. Many people have asked me: 'So do you have a death wish?' After doing a beautiful walk, I feel like punching them in the nose. It's indecent. I have a life wish. "

" I wanted all my life to give my world into other arts - books, plays, movies - but I didn't want to sell out. "

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

" What I think tailors the creativity of most people are the rules that we learn from the age we are very small - in school, our parents. "

" Fame was never something I was seeking in my artistic journey. It's to be used as a tool for an artist to break open doors and keep creating. That's how I enjoyed fame in '74; it was not just for the emptiness of being famous. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm a wire-walker, but actually, I'm a moviemaker that hasn't done his first movie. "

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

" I was in art school once a week from six to 16, which was essential in shaping my artistic sensitivity. "

" I did a walk in 1973 illegally in the northern side of the Sydney Harbor Bridge. "

" 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. "

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

" If I have to make a self-portrait, I would put poetry and rebellion on the list. To be able to walk on a wire, to be able to juggle six hoops, you need focus, another word for tenacity, which is passion. "

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

" For me, since I have a life wish, not a death wish, for me, I was not gambling my life. I was doing something much more beautiful. I was carrying my life across. "

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

" I started making monkey bridges, like kids do, and climbing and rappelling with ropes. Very naturally, I needed some knots. At the very beginning, I didn't care, I didn't know, and then slowly I started to know, and I started to care. I wanted to know more knots or the right knot for the special action. "