Adam Savage Quotes

• We’re not leaving here without Buster, man. Leave no crash-test dummy behind!

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• This is the point in the show where we say, “Oh, what else do we have in the van that’s flammable?”

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  Tags in Point, Thinking

• There is no dignity in television.

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• The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!

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  Tags in Couple, Thinking, Thing

• The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?

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• That’s the show. it’s like 5 minutes of science and then 10 minutes of me hurting myself.

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  Tags in Myself, Hurting, Science

• That was excellent! I mean, it didn’t do anything, but it looked really cool!

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  Tags in Excellent, Looked

• That was cool and that sucked all at the same time.

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• That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.

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  Tags in Childhood, Pretty

• Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!

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• Remember kids, I have life insurance.

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• My dignity and good television – they’ll never meet.

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• My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.

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  Tags in Lips, Things

• Let’s get on our knees and pray. I don’t know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?

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• Let’s blow some stuff up.

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• Jamie’s gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.

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  Tags in Myself, Process

• Jamie doesn’t like to do anything hastily, and I like to do everything incredibly hastily. So therein you have the dichotomy of our patterns.

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  Tags in Everything, Pattern, Incredibly

• Isn’t television glamourous?

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• In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a “failed experiment.” Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.

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  Tags in Thing, Science, Experiment

• I’m not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun… Not unless I have to!

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  Tags in Shoot, Thinking

Adam Savage (30)

Birth:	15th July, 1967
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Educator, Industrial Designer

About

Adam Whitney Savage is an American industrial design and special effects designer/fabricator, actor, educator, and co-host of the Discovery Channel television series MythBusters and Unchained Reaction. His model work has appeared in major films, including Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones and The Matrix Reloaded. He is a prominent member of the skeptic community. He lives in San Francisco with his twin sons and wife, Julia. On November 25, 2011, Savage received an honorary doctorate from the University of Twente for his role in the popularization of science and technology.

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