French - Celebrity | August 13, 1949 -
I would not describe my personality. And I think when you describe people, you are making a mistake. That's not how they are; that's how you perceive them at that moment. It's limiting in front of something that is magnificent and unlimited: life.
Philippe Petit
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If I have to make a self-portrait, I would put poetry and rebellion on the list. To be able to walk on a wire, to be able to juggle six hoops, you need focus, another word for tenacity, which is passion.
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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.
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I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage. That's why they call me a high wire artist.
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I am a wire-walker. I can walk any time, anywhere - I'm indestructible.
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Wire-walking in performance is one thing - I never fell, of course. If I had, I wouldn't be here talking about it.
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If I see three oranges, I have to juggle. And if I see two towers, I have to walk.
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In my life, I wanted to meet certain people. I never met Charlie Chaplin, but I met Werner Herzog.
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Obsessed people are not humorless at all.
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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.
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When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film.
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Talking about theater, actually, I built a little barn in upstate New York, and I call it 'the smallest theater in the world,' but it has a mini stage and a red velvet curtain.
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