Adam Savage

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

— Adam Savage

I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.

— Adam Savage

“My workplace is wherever I'm making something, which could be in a field in gold country, or in an abandoned warehouse on…

— Adam Savage

Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself…

— Adam Savage

I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.

— Adam Savage

The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!

— Adam Savage

I'm obsessed with the form of a toolbox. The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something…

— Adam Savage

The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?

— Adam Savage

Technology is usually there to let some process go on hidden in the background. For us on 'MythBusters,' we're always trying to…

— Adam Savage

The explosions, like the urban legends, are a great way of bringing people in to watch, because it's really fun, and you…

— Adam Savage

Walking the floor at a con dressed as Chewbacca, you might as well be Bono. I mean it's ridiculous. People just walk…

— Adam Savage

Growing up in New York, I was sort of shocked when I realized that my children are Californians. They are 14 years…

— Adam Savage

I think at this point, there's a certain bizarre chemistry between Jamie [Hyneman] and I that we can't ignore a lot of…

— Adam Savage

Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that…

— Adam Savage

Prayer doesn't work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I've paid attention. I've pictured…

— Adam Savage

Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting. Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your…

— Adam Savage

I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able…

— Adam Savage

Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences. There are jokes I tell in the show that don't get laughs…

— Adam Savage

“I love lists. Always have. when I was 14, I wrote down every dirty word I knew on file cards and placed…

— Adam Savage

Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction - spaceships, miniature sets, and…

— Adam Savage

From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way…

— Adam Savage

That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same…

— Adam Savage

I'm not a sculptor; I'm a hard-edged model maker. You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you…

— Adam Savage

The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime. Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability…

— Adam Savage

There's this group online that I frequent. It's a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and…

— Adam Savage

In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don't start, it's either the fuel system or the electrical system. Teach yourself about…

— Adam Savage

I'm always going to be making costumes. It's one of the ways I relax my brain. In addition to the pleasure of…

— Adam Savage