Latest Philippe Petit Quotes from Interviews

• You can always find a way to do something. Now, of course, when I do the action, it's an action that inspires people, it's a gift to people, it's not the other way around, I do not take something, I do not hurt people. Yes, I think today would be more than impossible and yet part of me would think that I continue to think that nothing is impossible.

  Philippe Petit

  Hurt, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

• The practical answer is, no it would be totally impossible for young or foreign people to get access to roof of a building that stands in the heart of a giant city and to put a cable across.

  Philippe Petit

  Heart, Cities, People

  Source: collider.com

• I am very attracted by the mysterious landscape of Easter Island. Not only because it is a piece of land that is further away from another, but also because of the beautiful statues of Moai that are there. To do a beautiful walk there, I would have to involve the Moai, and the Rapa Nui people who live on the island.

  Philippe Petit

  Beautiful, Easter, Islands

  Source: collider.com

• When I perform outside, the major problem that could arise is strong wind.I spend months preparing for the types of wind that occur in different locations.

  Philippe Petit

  Strong, Wind, Different

  Source: collider.com

• I usually practice on a small, low wire, that features the predominant wind. I study the meteorology of the place at the time that I am supposed to do my walk, and then I find the predominant direction and velocity of the wind and I train to fight that wind.

  Philippe Petit

  Fighting, Wind, Practice

  Source: collider.com

• If I look at the performance of another friend Sting, whenever I hear him take over a stage and share his art with millions, it's very inspiring to me. So I have a lot in my life, a lot of friends who inspire me and I'm sure it goes the other way around, or so that I inspire them.

  Philippe Petit

  Art, Inspire, Lots Of Friends

  Source: collider.com

• I have walked many times around the world and each time it's different from the last one. It feels a little bit like I am a theatrical director, creating a theatre in space. It's really a theater in the sky. But of course the World Trade Center is certainly the most well-known of my productions.

  Philippe Petit

  Sky, Creating, Space

  Source: collider.com

• I am very sensitive to all form of music, painting, sculpting, dancing, and I love cinema also. For example if I look at the work of the dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, who happens to be a friend of mine, everything he does is inspiring to me.

  Philippe Petit

  Dancing, Dancer, Example

  Source: collider.com

• I don't like to risk my life, so I prepare sometimes for months or sometimes for years. But sometimes after a walk, I look what I have done, and I have a little bit of fear coming to me, just looking at pictures.

  Philippe Petit

  Years, Risk, Looks

  Source: collider.com

• For me, when I am on the wire, I do not have a problem of eliminating or blocking fear. I do not really feel fear, although it is a fearful activity to walk in thin air, as I do without any safety device, but I am not fearful.

  Philippe Petit

  Block, Air, Safety

  Source: collider.com