Quotes About Adrenaline

Reality is hard to see through the adrenaline rush of a new love. It's easy to project your hopes and dreams onto a relationship when it's new and exciting, but the truth is that it is only in knowing who you are at your core and staying true to yourself that you can possibly see the difference between passion and real love.

Why is luge a sport? You dress up like a giant sperm and go sledding really fast. That's hardly athletic. Phallic and sexy, yes. But hardly athletic.

You're in front of an audience, but you're playing for a camera. There's this huge adrenaline rush, because you know that besides the audience in the studio, there are millions of people watching at home.

Before a show, you might have aches or pains, or it's a bad rainy day, or it's too humid. We all complain about stuff. But... how do I put this poetically? Once it's the roar of the crowd and the smell of the greasepaint, forget it. Once the adrenaline kicks in and your chest expands, you forget about all that.

You've got to be picky in this business - if you're not, then I don't think you have the option of longevity. You've got to be choosy and try and do something that's outside of the box and dangerous. I love doing stuff that excites me, gives me that adrenalin rush.

Since I was a kid, I have always froze when I saw an action star perform a stunt defying the parameters of safety and fear.

I always thought of myself as an amateur stunt man.

Jockeys - it's so difficult It's completely insane. You're balancing on the balls of your feet on the spine of a horse and it's like you're piloting a missile It's amazing. I think jockeys are stunt men.

I've been put under 8.5G in a stunt aeroplane. I felt all right. Well, I lost my vision, but I was still conscious.

I'd say most stuntmen are injured working with horses. They have a one-celled brain and change their minds right in the middle of a stunt no matter how many times they do it right in rehearsal.

One of the things that's interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually relax me. When they're putting a bit of gel on my arm and lighting me on fire, or when I'm about to go into a high-speed car chase or rev a motorcycle up pretty fast, I find everything else around me slows down.

Stunts are my favourite - I love it: the feeling, the adrenaline when all the cameras are rolling and everyone is watching and crowd round.

I'm actually doing more stunts for 'Maze Runner' than I did for 'Insurgent.'

I felt like Lara Croft while doing stunts.

The reason that war is such a fascinating subject for writers is because it's a revealer. Put a bunch of people in an adrenaline-fuelled, life-or-death situation and their fundamental behaviours are exposed, the scrim is taken away and the motivations behind each personality come out to play.

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

If I get into a car on a circuit, I drive as fast as I can; that's it!

I've tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rush like racing a car.

Before I got in the car, I was puking all over the place and on the grid. I was just a shaking wreck.

Once you've raced, you never forget it...and you never get over it.

It's like flying jet fighters in a gymnasium

Driving a race car is like dancing with a chain saw.

Racing a thoroughbred grand prix car in front of a home crowd will be a surreal and mighty experience.

To understand the intensity of driving an F1 car, you have to be in it.