Quotes About Balance

It's very easy to walk on a wire if you spend a whole lifetime practicing for it.

The wire is a safe place for me to be. The street is not. Life is not. It's a rigorous and simple path. It's straight. You don't have meanders like, you know, on the ground, in life.

On a very long and very high wire, I will not hope to not be blown off by high winds. I will have the certitude that such could not happen.

Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.

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

What do young, budding artists do, but go to law school? I had creative periods now and again, but it wasn't until I was practicing law that I really needed a creative outlet. I'd come home from long days at the office and draw, paint, and sculpt from clay, wire - even candy.

I would watch the remaining 12 or so episodes of 'Breaking Bad' I haven't seen by noon tomorrow, but my wife would kill me. I watched all five seasons of 'The Wire' in a month, and she was not happy about it.

I'm often very relaxed when I'm on the wire. There may be some tears because this is a dream of mine.

I started walking a wire when I was 2 years old, and this has been a dream of mine to recreate this walk.

To do this walk, I believe it's around 2,000 feet, to go from the U.S. to Canada. I would train walking a wire almost 8,000 feet, to overtrain for this.

My time is always divided when I prepare for a wire walk. First I dream, technically and artistically, and then I go to work, and I am the master rigger, climbing trees and ladders and constructing. Only then I change my cap and become the performer.

I rendezvous with the long wire and perform the 'torero walk', gliding my feet, holding the pole away from my body, head high.

It would be very, very dangerous for a wire walker to experience fear while he is balancing on the wire. Fear has its place on earth, before and maybe after a high-wire walk, but not during for me.

If you see how carefully I prepare for any kind of walk, legal or illegal, small or big, you will see that, actually, I narrow the unknown to virtually nothing. And that's when I am ready to walk on the wire.

As a high wire walker, I do not allow myself to 'leave the wire' during a performance.

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

It is treacherous on a high wire to change your focus point and suddenly look down.

You don't have to be someone who likes walking a tightrope across the Twin Towers to watch 'Man On Wire.'

Whenever we do wire work, we do look like babies just being, like, dangled.

It doesn't matter how late you get home or how wired you are, you still wake up early with your kids. That's the most important thing you do in a day, whether or not you're in a hit Broadway show.

There might've been wires, but I have this ability to make myself light. Well you know what, in ballet, when you kind of lift yourself here, it's all up in the head.

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

For the 'Heaven' stage, the dancers and I don't use wires so we are slowly slipping down the stage if you see us up close.

Many other states ultimately - they might not have the same balance sheet as Wisconsin - but collective bargaining from the federal level... these are big issues, and these costs need to be put under control.