Philippe Petit

Obsessed people are not humorless at all.

— Philippe Petit

“The rest is usually just an inhuman amount of tenacious work.”

— Philippe Petit

Passion is the motto of all my actions.

— Philippe Petit

Limits exist only in the souls of those who do not dream.

— Philippe Petit

I know it's impossible. But I know I'll do it!

— Philippe Petit

It's impossible, that's for sure. So let's start working.

— Philippe Petit

Life should be lived on the edge of life.

— Philippe Petit

Faith is what replaces doubt in my dictionary.

— Philippe Petit

I don't have a career, I have a life. Don't think of a career, think about your passion and look for inspiration.

— Philippe Petit

I've frowned at the idea of breaking records, the first one to do something, or do it longer, higher, more difficult.

— Philippe Petit

If I see three oranges, I have to juggle. And if I see two towers, I have to walk.

— Philippe Petit

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

— Philippe Petit

Wirewalker, trust your feet! Let them lead you; they know the way.

— Philippe Petit

Wire-walking in performance is one thing - I never fell, of course. If I had, I wouldn't be here talking about it.

— Philippe Petit

“It cannot be done all at once. To overpower vertigo - the keeper of the abyss- one must tame it, cautiously.”

— Philippe Petit

I'm a wire-walker, but actually, I'm a moviemaker that hasn't done his first movie.

— Philippe Petit

What I think tailors the creativity of most people are the rules that we learn from the age we are very small…

— Philippe Petit

I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally…

— Philippe Petit

Right after my Twin Towers walk, I was approached by hundreds of people, and I said no to all the offers. I…

— Philippe Petit

I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and…

— Philippe Petit

It would be very, very dangerous for a wire walker to experience fear while he is balancing on the wire. Fear has…

— Philippe Petit

I started very early, from five or six years old, to climb. To climb trees, to climb rocks everywhere I could. At…

— Philippe Petit

You must not fall. / When you lose your balance, resist for a long time before turning yourself toward the earth. Then…

— Philippe Petit

I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage.…

— Philippe Petit

I have walked many times around the world and each time it's different from the last one. It feels a little bit…

— Philippe Petit

I started making monkey bridges, like kids do, and climbing and rappelling with ropes. Very naturally, I needed some knots. At the…

— 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…

— Philippe Petit

I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness,…

— Philippe Petit

If I look at the performance of another friend Sting, whenever I hear him take over a stage and share his art…

— Philippe Petit

How could I share with you how I felt when two towers that I loved, two pieces of steel and glass and…

— Philippe Petit

Life should be lived on the edge of life. You have to exercise rebellion: to refuse to tape yourself to rules, to…

— Philippe Petit

I started putting a wire up in secret and performing without permission. Notre Dame, the Sydney Harbor Bridge, the World Trade Center.…

— Philippe Petit

Passion is the model of all my actions.

— Philippe Petit

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

— Philippe Petit

If I die, what a beautiful death.

— Philippe Petit

I walk on the wire; it's my profession, and there are no two high wire walks alike.

— Philippe Petit

It's always easy to describe something complex by applying to it an already known label.

— Philippe Petit

When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good…

— Philippe Petit

Usually, when I walk on a wire, I inspect the anchor point on both sides before crossing.

— Philippe Petit

On one day of the week, I relax - which is not true, I work furiously on other things. 'Relax' is not…

— Philippe Petit