Words matter. These are the best High Wire Quotes from famous people such as Peter Morgan, Pat Conroy, Christine Baranski, Philippe Petit, Oprah Winfrey, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’m not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it’s because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you’ve got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you’re constantly trying to evolve and do new things.
A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.
I walk on the wire; it’s my profession, and there are no two high wire walks alike.
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
As a high wire walker, I do not allow myself to ‘leave the wire’ during a performance.
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.
It is treacherous on a high wire to change your focus point and suddenly look down.
Acting still rings my bell as much as it did in high school. Plus, I can now indulge my interests as a producer as well. My work is more fun than fun but, best of all, it’s still very scary. You are always walking some kind of high wire.
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.
I am the poet of the high wire – I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.
Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
I walked on a high wire at Battersea power station for Comic Relief in 2011. It was the scariest but the most exciting moment. I hated being on it but as soon as I stepped off I was desperate to get back on and do it again!
The greatest thing about the call-in show is that you always felt like you were on a high wire without a net.
If I had been born in the circus, my parents would have pushed me on that little high wire at four years old. That’s when the body is most limber to learn those acrobatics.
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.
One of the things about politics, when you’re actually there, you realize, you’re on a high wire and there is no net under you. On any given day, your campaign can implode for something that happens inadvertently or even intentionally.
Cooking a piece of fish and cooking it right. Knowing the fish, knowing the properties of the fish. That’s a hard thing to do rather than covering it with a lot of sauces and foams or other cooking methods that might be high wire acts and look good on the outside.
