Adam Savage
Adam Savage
Adam Whitney Savage is an American industrial design and special effects designer/fabricator, actor, educator, and television personality, formerly known as co-hostof the Discovery Channel television series MythBusters and Unchained Reaction. His model work has appeared in major films, including Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones and The Matrix Reloaded. He is a prominent member of the skeptic community. He lives in San Francisco with his twin sons and wife, Julia...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth15 July 1967
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Adam Savage quotes about
The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?
Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.
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?'
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.
Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.
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.
Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.
Let's blow some stuff up.
Remember kids, I have life insurance.
There's few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.
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.
My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.
I believe that rules do not make us moral; loving each other makes us moral.