Top 80 Adam Savage Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “From earliest times, humans – explorers and thinkers – have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we’ve done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.”

— Adam Savage

52. “I wouldn’t say jamie is an evil genius. I’m not sure he’s evil and I’m not sure he’s a genius.”

— Adam Savage

53. “New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.”

— Adam Savage

54. “Walking the floor at a con dressed as Chewbacca, you might as well be Bono. I mean it’s ridiculous. People just walk up and grab you and hold you, because they love Chewbacca so much.”

— Adam Savage

55. “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.”

— Adam Savage

56. “We cleared all traces of our occupation out of M6 and moved to M7, and it’s been quite smooth over there. We chose a place all the way at the end of an industrial park.”

— Adam Savage

57. “Prayer doesn’t work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I’ve paid attention. I’ve pictured what I want to happen in my life. I’ve meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn’t work for me about them.”

— Adam Savage

58. “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.”

— Adam Savage

59. “Technology is usually there to let some process go on hidden in the background. For us on ‘MythBusters,’ we’re always trying to make the process apparent. So, we have learned to try and never rely on a technological solution when an analogue one is in front of us.”

— Adam Savage

60. “It doesn’t matter if you’re a model maker, a potter, a dancer, a programmer, a writer, a political activist, a teacher, a musician, a milliner, whatever. It’s all the same. Making is making, and none of it is failure.”

— Adam Savage

61. “Am I about to feel really, really stupid?”

— Adam Savage

62. “There’s few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.”

— Adam Savage

63. “Firemen have the coolest toys ever!”

— Adam Savage

64. “I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it. It’s a pointless delay that wrecks my pace – and mood.”

— Adam Savage

65. “The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century – it was actually mummified, skin and all – but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.”

— Adam Savage

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

— Adam Savage

67. “I find that your basic Internet chat board is way too vitriolic for my taste.”

— Adam Savage

68. “The explosions, like the urban legends, are a great way of bringing people in to watch, because it’s really fun, and you know we’re always going to give you a satisfying ending.”

— Adam Savage

69. “The ‘Mythbusters’ crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what’s going on, we keep updated.”

— Adam Savage

70. “I find it’s too much for me to read endless critiques, even if we’re being well-defended, of exactly what we’re doing. When someone tells us something we’re doing wrong on the boards, we try to respond, we try to be responsive to the fan boards, but yeah, I can’t read them.”

— Adam Savage

71. “I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I’m more optimistic than pessimistic.”

— Adam Savage

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

— Adam Savage

73. “There’s this group online that I frequent. It’s a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it’s people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.”

— Adam Savage

74. “There are women who are wishing that they were that piece of tape right now.”

— Adam Savage

75. “If I haven’t had any long term psychological side effects from all the things I’ve already done on this show, this isn’t gonna hurt much more.”

— Adam Savage

76. “We’re allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse.”

— Adam Savage

77. “After all those years of doing remote detonations, where we just push a button and something explodes, to actually see a nice big fat line of black smoke heading toward something that will blow up is very satisfying.”

— Adam Savage

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

— Adam Savage

79. “Lists are how I parse and manage the world.”

— Adam Savage

80. “That’s our job – to strap rockets onto everything.”

— Adam Savage

81. “My dignity and good television – they’ll never meet.”

— Adam Savage

82. “We don’t necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.”

— Adam Savage

83. “Isn’t television glamourous?”

— Adam Savage

84. “The best part of making a list is, you guessed it, crossing things off.”

— Adam Savage

85. “Wrong turns are part of every journey. They are, as Kurt Vonnegut was fond of saying, “dancing lessons from God,” and the last thing we want to do is give our kids two left feet.”

— Adam Savage

86. “I have concluded through careful empirical analysis and much thought that somebody is looking out for me, keeping track of what I think about things, forgiving me when I do less than I ought. Giving me strength to shoot for more than I think I’m capable of. I believe they know everything that I do and think, and they still love me, and I’ve concluded, after careful consideration, that this person keeping score is me.”

— Adam Savage

87. “When we say we need to teach kids how to “fail,” we aren’t really telling the full truth. What we mean when we say that is simply that creation is iteration and that we need to give ourselves the room to try things that might not work in the pursuit of something that will.”

— Adam Savage

88. “This is one of the main reasons I believe that adolescence can be so fraught for so many. Just as we start to catch the barest glimpses of our true selves and begin to understand what it is about the world that fascinates and intrigues us, we often run right into people who aren’t ready to be encouraging and can be downright hostile to someone being “different.”

— Adam Savage

89. “There is no skill in the world, I have since discovered, at which you get better the less sleep you have.”

— Adam Savage