Quotes By Adam Savage

Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.

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

I would have to say that looked like it hurt.

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

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

There is no dignity in television.

Am I about to feel really, really stupid?

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.

Remember kids, I have life insurance.

Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.

This is the point in the show where we say, "Oh, what else do we have in the van that's flammable?"

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.

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

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

I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day. So my wife's experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they're doing.

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.

My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.

I reject your reality and substitute my own.

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

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

I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!

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.

It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.

I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.

I just had one of those "what the hell are we doing" moments.

When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.

I'm not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun... Not unless I have to!

Isn't television glamourous?

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

The skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the 'Mythbusters' heart and there's no small reason that they've embraced us. That's our people. That's the way we like to think.