Philippe Petit Quotes
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Philippe Petit Quotes & Sayings
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Limits exist only in the souls of those who do not dream.
— Philippe Petit
It's impossible, that's for sure. So let's start working.
— Philippe Petit
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.
— Philippe Petit
My parents were intelligent and encouraging, but at the same time, they were displeased at me becoming a wandering troubadour and wire walker.
— Philippe Petit
As a high wire walker, I do not allow myself to 'leave the wire' during a performance.
— Philippe Petit
The rest is usually just an inhuman amount of tenacious work.
— Philippe Petit
It's always easy to describe something complex by applying to it an already known label.
— Philippe Petit
I am a thief of knowledge, and in a survival way, I had to solve all the problems around me.
— Philippe Petit
An intellectual challenge presents itself? I am in bliss. Instantly, it brings forth the notion of triumph.
— Philippe Petit
I've been arrested many times for illegal high wire walking and illegal street performing.
— Philippe Petit
When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film.
— Philippe Petit
My journey has always been the balance between chaos and order.
— Philippe Petit
If it's a problem of fire, fire might very well be the answer.
— Philippe Petit
Why does almost every ad agency in the world set the time on a watch at 10:10 before photographing it?
— Philippe Petit
I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the high wire.
— Philippe Petit
Wirewalker, trust your feet! Let them lead you; they know the way.
— Philippe Petit
I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street.
— Philippe Petit
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.
— Philippe Petit
I hate all electronic things that are supposed to help the human being. You don't smell, you don't hear, you don't touch anymore.
— Philippe Petit
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.
— Philippe Petit
It cannot be done all at once. To overpower vertigo - the keeper of the abyss- one must tame it, cautiously.
— Philippe Petit
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.
— Philippe Petit
There is a child inside me that wants to come out and do something to surprise all the adults.
— Philippe Petit
I don't have a career, I have a life. Don't think of a career, think about your passion and look for inspiration.
— Philippe Petit
Wire-walking in performance is one thing - I never fell, of course. If I had, I wouldn't be here talking about it.
— Philippe Petit
I wanted all my life to give my world into other arts - books, plays, movies - but I didn't want to sell out.
— Philippe Petit
I walk on the wire; it's my profession, and there are no two high wire walks alike.
— Philippe Petit
I'm a wire-walker, but actually, I'm a moviemaker that hasn't done his first movie.
— Philippe Petit
If I die, what a beautiful death.
— Philippe Petit
Everybody wanted me to be rich and famous on my art. And I said no to all the commercials and all the seedy offers.
— Philippe Petit
Passion is the model of all my actions.
— Philippe Petit
My destiny no longer has me conquering the highest toowers in the world, but rather the void they protect.This cannot be measured. — Philippe Petit
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.
— Philippe Petit
Death frames the high wire. But I don't see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.
— Philippe Petit
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.
— Philippe Petit
Passion is the motto of all my actions.
— Philippe Petit
It is treacherous on a high wire to change your focus point and suddenly look down.
— Philippe Petit
One more thing: Philippe, you are not a coward-so what I want to hear from you is the ecstatic truth about the twin towers.
— Werner Herzog
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.
— Philippe Petit
Usually, when I walk on a wire, I inspect the anchor point on both sides before crossing.
— Philippe Petit
I've frowned at the idea of breaking records, the first one to do something, or do it longer, higher, more difficult.
— Philippe Petit
In my life, I wanted to meet certain people. I never met Charlie Chaplin, but I met Werner Herzog.
— Philippe Petit
On the high wire, within months, I'm able to master all the tricks they do in the circus, except I am not satisfied.
— Philippe Petit
Obsessed people are not humorless at all.
— Philippe Petit
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.
— Philippe Petit
To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.
— Philippe Petit
I would like to continue to tell stories of what I did in a biographical way, so I will continue to write.
— Philippe Petit
I know it's impossible. But I know I'll do it!
— Philippe Petit
There was a time when fire and story would fall asleep in unison. It was dream time.
— Philippe Petit
When I see three oranges, I juggle; when I see two towers, I walk!
— Philippe Petit
I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and writing and sculpting and classical music.
— Philippe Petit
I rendezvous with the long wire and perform the 'torero walk', gliding my feet, holding the pole away from my body, head high.
— Philippe Petit
I have been expelled from five different schools when I was a kid. And I learned basically all what I do by myself.
— Philippe Petit
Faith is what replaces doubt in my dictionary.
— Philippe Petit
