Quotes About Thrill

I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into a row of seats and catapults you into the air from the top of the Stratosphere Tower - then plummets back down. I ride it over and over; it's exhilarating.

I was a gambler when I was a kid, so when we got to Las Vegas, it was like Mecca.

But I'll never forget my trip to Las Vegas. I'm a huge rollercoaster fan and we did the one at the Stratosphere, which curls around the hotel, and there's one that dips out from the roof then comes back in. That was intense.

Anything you can do that's self-destructive in Vegas, whatever that is, I do it.

The large venue gives me the thrill that comes from the power in numbers.

I was never more alive than when the Dark Passenger was driving.

Killing makes me feel good.

in the best tradition of Miami watercraft, most of the other boaters seemed to be trying to kill me. I found that very relaxing. I was right at home. This is my country; these are my people.

With barely two francs to rub together, she traveled alone and on a shoestring, living on the food she'd packed. While rejoicing in again finding herself independent and teetering thousands of feet above the valley floor, negotiating life-and-death moves on the rock walls and being responsible to no one but herself.

You know, I've nearly been killed by a poisonous flying lizard-snake, and came close to becoming a squid-croc snack. And you nearly died from stubbing your toe?

If you're a surfer, you just want to surf. You don't know if anyone's going to see you, and you don't really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.

There's no death wish. Ironically, it's the opposite. We're after an enhanced sense of life. We trip over death, but don't take it. The process, the ritual of this, is all for the thrill and the power from the pleasure that seeps into every part of you during dying and surfacing. The intoxication is nearly impossible to fight.

There's no such thing as a great stunt if there's no danger involved.

Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.

If you don't finish a day of stunts with a lot of bruises, you feel like you haven't done it right.

I love doing the stunts. It's as simple as that.

I'm a bit insane when it comes to doing my own stunts and getting down and dirty. It's fun, you know? It's things I wouldn't normally do in my real life, so when I go to work and get to beat people up and shoot guns and get waterboarded, those are things I find completely interesting.

I realized I have an appetite for stunts. I learned how to do them myself.

Stunts I love.

Stunts are really fun.

I was doing stunts for money, not for fame.

I love performing stunts; the more dangerous they are, the more I am driven.

I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.

La muerte es, a fin de cuentas, el espectáculo más excitante en cualquier parte del mundo.