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If I have to make a self-portrait, I would put poetry and rebellion on the list. To be able to walk on a wire, to be able to juggle six hoops, you need focus, another word for tenacity, which is passion.

~Philippe Petit

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I will never fall prey to celebrity because I am too busy. I have other things to do than look at myself in the mirror.

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I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage. That's why they call me a high wire artist.

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

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Wire-walking in performance is one thing - I never fell, of course. If I had, I wouldn't be here talking about it.

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In my life, I wanted to meet certain people. I never met Charlie Chaplin, but I met Werner Herzog.

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Obsessed people are not humorless at all.

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If I had been born in the circus, my parents would have pushed me on that little high wire at four years old. That's when the body is most limber to learn those acrobatics.

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When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film.

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

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Celebrity

Born: August 13th, 1949

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