Quotes About Adrenaline

I was always a fan of horror films as a kid.

When I was a little kid, I loved horror films. I always liked being scared.

For me, horror movies are a real escape.

I love all horror movies.

I enjoy horror movies.

I get butterflies before going out to ride every day, but they disappear as soon as I am on a horse, and I think that is the same for most jockeys. Then it is just down to you and the horse, and there is a certain freedom in that.

I've seen such things as you would not believe. I've seen motorbikes driven down hotel corridors - and had a go myself.

I'm not a huge fan of horror movies myself because I'm a big baby and I get too scared to watch them.

I'm not a huge fan of horror movies, but I like a few within the genre.

I've always been fascinated with adrenaline; it's saved my life more than once, and it's caused me to need it to save my life more than once. One of the most fascinating responses in human evolution, adrenaline sharpens your brain; it sharpens your responses.

Teeth chattering and my heartbeat thumping behind my eyeballs.

And then the cold muzzle of a dart gun at the back of her neck erased all other brain activity.

Only in the shadow of death do we sense the true velocity of time—while adrenaline blasts through our systems, eternity becomes tangible and all else blurs into background.

If I was at the final table at the World Series of Poker, that would probably be the most exciting thing I've ever done in my life. And believe me, the UFC, the announcing in the Octagon, is extremely exciting.

Conflict photographers grapple with two worlds that are themselves often in conflict - the one where bombs fall and bullets fly, where adrenaline runs high, and the other, back home, which is comparatively secure, and where the big event of the day may involve selecting swatches of fabric for a new sofa.

If you come down to it, there's only a handful of worlds that action films live in. You have your car chases, your gun fights, and your fights.

I've worn a chainmail suit to swim with sharks, glided over Cirencester with a James Bond-style paramotor strapped to my back, eaten hippo steaks and had a bat dive down my bra. And all the while, I had to face the camera and smile.

My adrenaline is definitely going, but it's mostly my real, laid-back persona carrying over on stage. When I first started, I was nervous, I'd be really high energy, and I'd be sweating. Now it's just my job. It's like a machinist who goes to work every day and uses the same drill bits. He's not worried about taking his finger off.

There's a ton of nerves for every fight I've been in; it doesn't matter if it was my debut.

The Harley's got a little too much torque when it comes to jumping.

It pumps me up - the whole idea of the bowler marking his run-up, popping at the crease, the crowd chanting, nerves building up. It's a very good feeling. Right from the first ball, I know I have to be at the top of my game.

I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skydiving. Free fall. Free. With nothing around you, just a parachute on your back. And you go down. But you don't feel like you're going down. Total freedom.

Motor racing can never be totally safe and it never should be in my opinion.

War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them.