Jamie Hyneman Quotes

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Jamie Hyneman

Profession : Entertainer

Birth : September 25, 1956

I grew up on an apple orchard with a lot of surrounding wooded area, and I ran everywhere. I was outside all the time climbing trees.

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We're not friends - in fact, we pretty much as a rule irritate each other. But we've learnt to embrace it and use it as a strength... the other guy's always seeing something from the opposite pole.

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Now that I'm not a puppet for some director, the Hyneman is free to explore the world at large.

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Algae are such basic, simple organisms.

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We've got a great deal of respect for each other on camera as well as off, no matter what it might occasionally look like.

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I'm like a race horse attached to a freight wagon.

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As it turns out, one of the biggest choices we have doing the show is deciding the tangents we are allowed to take, the stuff that we see along the way. We're allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse.

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We really do prefer to build things rather than destroy things, believe it or not.

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There are times when we're testing an actual explosion, and then there are times when we blow stuff up just because we can.

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You know, dealing with effects, as a job it's great, but with 'Mythbusters,' the stuff we've seen, the stuff we've absorbed over the years, has just been fantastic, and I wouldn't change it for the world.

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You know, when you look carefully at stuff that you deal with everyday, applying a little creativity to it and thinking outside the box, it's amazing what you can do.

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I found that cardiovascular exercise boosts my mental performance. If I have a problem to solve, like an engineering one, and I get on a treadmill, then time disappears; all I know is an hour later I'm all sweaty and the problem has been solved.

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I work out regularly because I don't see the mind and body as that separate.

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I've ended up water skiing behind the Stanford rowing team as well as water skiing behind an excavator while it swung around in a circle.

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I mean, we're - if I may say so - we're experts at using materials and processes in ways for which they were never intended.

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There are things that you would think were not possible, and yet they are.

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I went to the library - and this was before the Internet - and I searched for a career that was creative, would not fall into a routine, involved problem solving and making things. It also had to be dynamic. I came up with special effects.

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I was approached to do 'MythBusters' in 2002. I didn't think it would go anywhere, but I guess anything can happen if you wear a funny hat and have lots of facial hair.

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For four years, I worked as one of the general shop crew on movies like 'Naked Lunch' and 'Arachnophobia.' I made lots of bugs.

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I think 'MythBusters' is a step up from special effects because we not only have to make things look like they work, they actually do have to work. It's more challenging and even transcendental.

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