Jamie Hyneman

Entertainer

98 Quotes

I'm not an early adopter of technology unless I consider it absolutely indispensable.

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

My hair was falling out so I got in the habit of wearing a hat. And I didn't like baseball caps so I got a beret.

I think it's probably safe to say that continuing our onscreen relationship in front of the camera is probably not happening. I expect Adam may well pursue things in front of the camera, but I'm most likely not. It's not who I am.

A good urban legend is something that actually did happen but it got twisted in the telling over time.

Well, one of the myths early on that I think is one of the funnier things we've done is airline toilet seats. That one was about a large woman that sat down on a seat in an airline and flushed the toilet and got stuck on it.

I was a problematic kid, to be sure.

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.

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.

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.

If we knew what we were doing we wouldn't be entertaining.

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

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

I wouldn't spend five minutes with Adam outside work if I didn't have to. But yet I feel somewhat displaced without him in the workplace... destroying my tools and leaving messes everywhere he goes.

In my case you can pretty well figure that you can put a beret and a mustache on just about anything you want and it looks like me.

I never dreamed we would be on television at all, much less for such a long time and with so much praise for keeping a thought provoking show on the air. And best of all, we were able to do what we do and still have all our fingers and toes.

After working as a charter boat captain and dive master in the Caribbean for a number of years, I decided it was time for a change.

In my case, the only thing to note is if I show up at home at an unusual time, it's cause for raising my wife's blood pressure because it only happens if... usually that involves stitches.

I really didn't think this was going to be a success. We did the first three episodes and I said to Adam, 'I can't see this going anywhere. I've already used up all my urban legends.'

We're these guys that are very tech-savvy, so people tend to expect us to say our favorite gadgets are thing like the latest iPhone or the latest app or something like that. Adam is pretty much like that. As far as myself, I'm the kind of guy that tends to go for the absolute simplest things.

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