Adam Savage Quotes (32 Quotes)


    I arrived at ILM during the final push to finish Episode I, and it was like going to heaven. A shop full of some of the best people I've ever had the honor to work with. I was lucky enough to spend a few weeks at Skywalker Ranch working on pre-production models for Episode II. Given that it was one of the first jobs I ever wanted to have, it was pretty cool to get a chance to participate.

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



    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.


    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.

    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.

    My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.


    I reject your reality and substitute my own.

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

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

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


    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.

    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.

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

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

    I would have to say that looked like it hurt.

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

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

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

    Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?

    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?

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

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


    Am I about to feel really, really stupid?


    I reject your reality and substitute it for my own.



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