47 Philippe Petit Quotes for You to Enjoy

Philippe Petit

French Celebrity

Born: Aug 13, 1949

Am Life Me Walk World You

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When I was learning by myself, despite my parents, despite my teachers, despite society, when I was fighting for building my life as a young wire walker at age 16, I didn't have feelings, I had certainties. Philippe Petit

Life Myself Learning Age My Life Parents Feelings Building Young Fighting Society Despite Wire Had Walker Teachers Certainties

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. Philippe Petit

Life Death Good You Valuable See Boundary Performed Most Because Very Close Human Human Activity Where Full Activity Actually

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. Philippe Petit

Me You Balance Solid Out Would Able Beat Take Wire Pushed Put Head Piece Practicing Tight Am Up Move Wood Should Rope Shoulder Granite

It is very normal for people on the ground to look at somebody apparently walking in midair and thinking first that person is crazy and thinking secondly that person risks his or her life. Philippe Petit

Life Crazy Risks People Somebody First Thinking Secondly Look His Normal Very Walking Person Ground Apparently Her

Of course, the slightest little mistake on the wire will deprive me of my life, so in that sense, yes, it is a dangerous profession. You have to pay attention; if not, you will lose your life. Philippe Petit

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

Walk Old First Between Towers Years Notre Dame Dame

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

Poet High High Wire Wire Never Performance Stunts Am Theatrical

I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street. Philippe Petit

School Out Thrown Schools Go Different Much Different Schools Street University

Metaphorically speaking, of course, if I put a problem behind my pillow and fall asleep, very often because my brain went to sleep with that idea or the problem alive, very often in the middle of the night I wake up, and I wake up with a solution or with a direction of solution. Philippe Petit

Notre Dame and Sydney - that was nothing. Notre Dame doesn't have a police station; it is not 1,000 or so feet high. It was a public structure, very easy to access. And Sydney Harbour Bridge was half-and-half: a bridge, in the middle of the night. The World Trade Center was the end of the world. Electronic devices, police dogs. Philippe Petit

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

Journey Balance My Journey Chaos Between Always Been Order

The impossible - we are told - cannot be achieved. To overcome the 'impossible,' we need to use our wits and be fearless. We need to break the rules and to circumvent - some would one say to cheat. Philippe Petit

Overcome Impossible Our Say Rules Would Some Fearless Cheat Wits Achieved Break Cannot Use Need

My time is always divided when I prepare for a wire walk. First I dream, technically and artistically, and then I go to work, and I am the master rigger, climbing trees and ladders and constructing. Only then I change my cap and become the performer. Philippe Petit

Work Time Change Walk Technically First Master Become Trees Dream Only My Time Constructing Divided Wire Performer Always Am Climbing Go Ladders Cap Then Prepare

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

Me Parents Honorable Wanted Profession

There was a time when fire and story would fall asleep in unison. It was dream time. Philippe Petit

Time Fire Fall Dream Would Story Asleep Unison

Faith is what replaces doubt in my dictionary. Philippe Petit

Faith Doubt Dictionary

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