Adam Savage Quotes


"The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?"
- Adam Savage
"Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?"
- Adam Savage
"This is the point in the show where we say, "Oh, what else do we have in the van that's flammable?""
- Adam Savage
"My dignity and good television - they'll never meet."
- Adam Savage
(Related: Dignity, Television)

"The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!"
- Adam Savage
(Related: Old)

"That's the show. it's like 5 minutes of science and then 10 minutes of me hurting myself."
- Adam Savage
(Related: Science)

"That was excellent! I mean, it didn't do anything, but it looked really cool!"
- Adam Savage
"That was cool and that sucked all at the same time."
- Adam Savage
(Related: Time)

"Let's blow some stuff up."
- Adam Savage
"Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!"
- Adam Savage
"We're not leaving here without Buster, man. Leave no crash-test dummy behind!"
- Adam Savage
(Related: Man)

"My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things."
- Adam Savage
(Related: Advice)

"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."
- Adam Savage
(Related: Soul, Childhood, Job, May, Pretty)

"Bigger is always better."
- Adam Savage
"Am I about to feel really, really stupid?"
- Adam Savage
"There is no dignity in television."
- Adam Savage
(Related: Dignity, Television)

"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
(Related: Fool, Now)

"Failure is always an option."
- Adam Savage
(Related: Failure)

"Firemen have the coolest toys ever!"
- Adam Savage
"I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola."
- Adam Savage
(Related: Now)

"I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!"
- Adam Savage
(Related: Ideas)

"I just had one of those "what the hell are we doing" moments."
- Adam Savage
(Related: Hell, Moments)

"I reject your reality and substitute my own."
- Adam Savage
(Related: Reality)

"I would have to say that looked like it hurt."
- Adam Savage
(Related: Hurt)

"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."
- Adam Savage
"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
(Related: Genius, Evil)

"Isn't television glamourous?"
- Adam Savage
(Related: Television)

"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."
- Adam Savage
(Related: Science, Spirit)

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