Adam Savage's Quotes

Remember kids, I have life insurance.

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

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

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.

I reject your reality and substitute my own.

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.

Failure is always an option.

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

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

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.

Isn't television glamourous?

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

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

There is no dignity in television.

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

Am I about to feel really, really stupid?