Jamie Hyneman Quotes

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Jamie Hyneman

Profession : Entertainer

Birth : September 25, 1956

On occasion, we at 'MythBusters' come across stories we want to test that require using a pig carcass to simulate human physiology.

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When I watch a movie I don't really care too much about the plot - not that it isn't important, but what I remember is the visual imagery, something that happens in an individual scene.

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Terry Gilliam has directed some of the best examples of what I like to see in a film - one of them being 'Baron Munchausen.'

Jamie Hyneman

I love Tim Curry as the Devil in 'Legend;' the prosthetics that are on him are so over the top sensually evil, and Tim takes full advantage, is just oozing with the role. The makeup and prosthetics, and his character are seamless.

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There are a couple of scenes in David Lynch's 'Dune' that I loved - again, small things but inspired and elegantly done.

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A lot of mythology surrounds British inventor Geoffrey Pyke. He supposedly made people come to his bedside to see his designs because getting up and getting dressed took too long.

Jamie Hyneman

If you ever decide to build a boat out of wet newspaper, it's important to remember to lay down the sheets like shingles on a house: One issue at a time, starting at the bow and moving aft, so water flows over the layers, not under them.

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We're not too out there to educate people about any specific thing necessarily so much as we are to encourage critical and scientific thinking.

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I'm sort of reluctant to celebrity.

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I was a problematic kid, to be sure.

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I've run several of my own small businesses in my life.

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I am pretty much who I seem, and it's not a television host.

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When I was in school, shop class was where the kids that weren't good in anything to do with books went.

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Over time, shop classes sort of disappeared or got marginalized in the states. I don't really know why. Now with tech like 3-D printers and CNCs, shops have acquired a new shine.

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We are seeing robotics creep into all areas and become accessible, where it used to be something tedious that only the most persistent people could access.

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I'm excited about all technology.

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I think anybody who's curious about anything, including their own mind, is inherently a skeptic.

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There are a lot of scientists or other people who can be very skeptical or rational within their field, but they may well not do that in other aspects of their lives, when it comes to things like religion, or what have you. People have this amazing gift for being selective with their curiosity and skepticism.

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Adam and I don't consider ourselves friends. We don't spend any time together that we don't have to.

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