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Talking about theater, actually, I built a little barn in upstate New York, and I call it 'the smallest theater in the world,' but it has a mini stage and a red velvet curtain.

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I would like to continue to tell stories of what I did in a biographical way, so I will continue to write.

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Fame was never something I was seeking in my artistic journey. It's to be used as a tool for an artist to break open doors and keep creating. That's how I enjoyed fame in '74; it was not just for the emptiness of being famous.

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I've frowned at the idea of breaking records, the first one to do something, or do it longer, higher, more difficult.

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I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and writing and sculpting and classical music.

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I'm a wire-walker, but actually, I'm a moviemaker that hasn't done his first movie.

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When I was learning by myself, despite my parents, despite my teachers, despite society, when I was fighting for building my life as a young wire walker at age 16, I didn't have feelings, I had certainties.

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You see, it's actually very good that a human activity is performed very close to death, because that's where life is. Life is, at its most valuable and most full, very close to the boundary of life.

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It would be very, very dangerous for a wire walker to experience fear while he is balancing on the wire. Fear has its place on earth, before and maybe after a high-wire walk, but not during for me.

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It is very normal for people on the ground to look at somebody apparently walking in midair and thinking first that person is crazy and thinking secondly that person risks his or her life.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Celebrity

Born: August 13th, 1949

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