I have talked to stunt drivers all my life, 32 years of talking to stunt drivers. There's a craziness to them.
Nik Wallenda and his family are legendary.
My life has been being a daredevil. I am Evel Knievel. I am a daredevil.
I jumped between two seven-story buildings in Los Angeles, launching from one rooftop to the other with ramps.
With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
I'm not doing any crazy stuff any more. Like I used to do high falls; I used to jump from the motorcycle to the truck myself. That's unheard of today. Now nobody would ever do that. In those days it was stupid, man. I just did it because that's what it was, but that I don't do anymore.
Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.
I was always the guy who jumped off the roof of the garage, who could climb up the facade of a building.
I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
A James Bond movie is a stuntman's dream.
I should have been a stuntwoman.
Just as most of us prefer to watch a trapeze artist work without a net, we like to be absolutely sure that a virtuoso is giving us our money's worth, and a seemingly effortless performance, no matter how spectacular it may be, deprives us of that slightly sadistic thrill.
Stunts I love.
In the old days they, the promoters, wanted more and more from me. They wanted me to jump or spill my blood and break my bones. Every time they wanted me to jump further, and further, and further. Hell, they thought my bike had wings.
In an action film, you think of things that are almost impossible to do and yet you have to manage to show them as being possible on film.
