Nik Wallenda Quotes

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

Wire-walking in performance is one thing - I never fell, of course. If I had, I wouldn't be here talking about it.

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 thing that's interesting about wire walking is that we never get to see it other than looking up. It's like a circus thing. It's a guy on a wire.

What I'm doing is a natural wonder. If not, there'd be 150 people behind me on the wire.

You don't have to be someone who likes walking a tightrope across the Twin Towers to watch 'Man On Wire.'

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.

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.

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

To do this walk, I believe it's around 2,000 feet, to go from the U.S. to Canada. I would train walking a wire almost 8,000 feet, to overtrain for this.

I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.

I want to ride my motorcycle up the side of the Luxor to the light and vanish.

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

It's very easy to walk on a wire if you spend a whole lifetime practicing for it.

Nik Wallenda and his family are legendary.

I jumped off a 30ft diving board for a dare once and it wasn't fun.

I'm often very relaxed when I'm on the wire.

[My job is] a very high trapeze act, frequently with no net.

I could jump out of this window feet first, which would be the safe way. But the way I'd do it would be to use a ramp, get a running start, dive through head first and maybe throw in a little roll at the end. Doing it that way makes it more spectacular.

I was an anguished little girl with just one wish: to become an actor. I debuted in live theater at 14 with Dario Niccodemi's 'La Nemica.'

I started studying piano at the age of four.

As an actor you are supposed to do some kind of action in case it is required. I remember this sequence where I was pulled up by a wire 100 ft above the ground. This was my first time that I was hung with a wire and I was a bit scared. But I must say it was a very beautiful experience looking down at everybody from a height.

The harder routes you climb, the more interesting the climbing gets and the more crazy moves you are forced to figure out.

I did a tandem parachute jump when I opened a golf course in Atlanta, Georgia. I jumped out of a plane at 15,000 feet to land on the first tee, and then I played a couple of holes with golfer Arnold Palmer. That was brilliant.

I'm not a guy who wants to skydive and open my parachute at the last minute. I want to open my parachute right away and know what's coming.