Quotes & Sayings About Knoxville

Johnny Knoxville has such an incredible humanity to him when you meet him. He's so warm and so funny, and he can sort of get into trouble and you sort of forgive him immediately. — Max Winkler

I auditioned at the Radisson in Knoxville, and I just did what I always do. I just try to believe what I'm doing. — Brad Renfro

I'm so uncoordinated, I can't really do that much, so my specialty is standing in one spot or holding on to something, like an exploding rocket or a jetski. — Johnny Knoxville

Everything you see on screen is real. By doing what we do, there's naturally going to be a lot of grimacing. And whimpering. — Johnny Knoxville

I'm lucky enough to be with someone, and I am happy. — Johnny Knoxville

What calmed me down finally was when my girlfriend got pregnant. — Johnny Knoxville

I just love that spirit that makes people do things that they probably shouldn't. — Johnny Knoxville

I was on the verge of taking over a company myself, from my father, before I left Knoxville to become an actor. I was also a company commander in Korea, so I had some sense of how powerful authority can be. How dangerous it can be. — John Cullum

People think by challenging me they're going to show they're tough. But I'm not tough. Decent drinker. Not such a bad kisser. But not a great fighter. — Johnny Knoxville

Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious. — Johnny Knoxville

I'm not looking to lose anything. I'm looking to continue making movies. — Johnny Knoxville

I'm not out running around all the time. I'm not partying constantly and constantly battling myself. I'm with someone, and we are very, very happy. — Johnny Knoxville

The lights of Knoxville quaked in a faint penumbra to the west as must the ruins of many an older city seen by herders in the hills, by barbaric tribesmen shuffling along the roads. — Cormac McCarthy

You can tell it's good if you light it and a blue flame comes up; that means it's good moonshine and it won't make you go blind. — Johnny Knoxville

I don't remember the first stunt I ever did. — Johnny Knoxville

A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that set them apart. — Johnny Knoxville

'I know this is going to end bad, but I'm going to pretend it's going to end good.' My life's philosophy. — Johnny Knoxville

It's just an unhealthy way to approach something, trying to outdo your last thing. You've gotta trust evolution, you've gotta trust that the bar is moving, that you don't need to force the bar. It'll just happen. — Johnny Knoxville

I have a whole slew of doctors. I can count eight in my phone right now - eight different doctors, all for different parts of my body. I have specialists. — Johnny Knoxville

I was a really bad kid. Then, I got sweet as I got older. — Johnny Knoxville

It's unfortunate when kids get hurt, but I wish parents would monitor what their kids are doing and watching. It's common sense, really. — Johnny Knoxville

Doctors have told me I have a high pain threshold, but I can only know what I feel. I think I'm good at minimising the pain and being indifferent to it. — Johnny Knoxville

Being a complete juvenile delinquent helped me grow up a little. — Johnny Knoxville

I think I'm a little concussed. — Johnny Knoxville

Johnny Knoxville went from struggling to pay his rent to being on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' in the course of, like, a month. — Spike Jonze

In Knoxville, they're still doing cartwheels because they went 7-6 and won a bowl game. — Steve Spurrier

If someone hits me I consider it a challenge. — Johnny Knoxville

I don't care what other people think. — Johnny Knoxville

I have a full grown, semi-nude man bound with duct tape in my truck and I was trying to get out to the desert to bury him. How do I get to 5 South? — Johnny Knoxville

I think everyone roots for the underdog. — Johnny Knoxville

Of course I've had a bunch of broken bones, sprains and I've had five or six concussions, with three serious ones. I also got a real heavy duty blood clot and internal bleeding from where I was shot in the stomach with a beanbag bullet that the police use for crowd control. I've also had six stitches in my head. — Johnny Knoxville

I'm just basking in the glory. — Johnny Knoxville

I love Louisiana. It's amazing. — Johnny Knoxville

I always sang when I was little-bitty girl. I sang all the time. And then I'm from Knoxville, Tennessee, so I sang in a show at Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. You know, they have all those variety shows where Dollywood is. And I sang there and yodeled and clogged, but I never wrote my own songs. — Ashley Monroe

You were about five feet short of a ten feet jump? — Johnny Knoxville

A couple days before the stunts, if I'm doing something particularly dangerous, I will go over every worst-case scenario in my head, like this could happen, this could happen, this could happen, this could happen. I try to think about that to where it's ingrained in me. — Johnny Knoxville

When I used to go into bars people would try and fight me. Women would punch me 10 years ago or put cigarettes out on my arm or my face. But it doesn't seem to happen any more. They show us a lot of love. — Johnny Knoxville

I actually got stabbed at my friend's bachelor party. In real life. — Johnny Knoxville

People try to challenge me in bars every now and then. As long as they're not physical I just walk away, but if they get physical then I just end up in a fight. — Johnny Knoxville

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville Tennessee in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child. — James Agee

I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from Knoxville who bought her brassieres by the boxful.' I just feel a sort of small triumph. — Garrison Keillor

My aunt in Knoxville would bring newspapers up, which we used for toilet paper. Before we used it, we'd look at the pictures. — Dolly Parton

I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out. — Rachel Perry

When my parents went off to Knoxville to work, I lived with my father's mother. She was strict - the kind who starched and ironed dresses. I had to sit more than I played. Oh, I was miserable. I liked being out with the animals. I'd come in the house with my hair pulled out, sash off the dress, dirty as heck. I was always getting spanked. — Tina Turner

It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible. — Johnny Knoxville

I feel like my eyes have gonorrhea. — Johnny Knoxville

My parents said that I was nine months old and would throw myself out of the crib onto the floor continually. As soon as they left the room after putting me back in they'd hear a big bump and I'd be on the floor again. — Johnny Knoxville

Everyone gets hurt, but I've probably had the most injuries. — Johnny Knoxville

We're just trying to make ourselves laugh. We realize critics are going to hate it, but it just makes fans like it more. — Johnny Knoxville

I love the tabloids except for when I'm in 'em. — Johnny Knoxville

My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old, and I thought it was big time. — Dolly Parton

I just try to think of all the things that could go wrong so in that split second when it happens, maybe your body reacts in a way where it protects you just a little. — Johnny Knoxville

I pretty much operate on adrenaline and ignorance. — Johnny Knoxville

People go to car races to watch the crashes. — Johnny Knoxville

The worse the reviews, the better for our demographic. — Johnny Knoxville

I am a native of Taiwan, and I earned my bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University. I received my master's and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. — Min Kao

I'm the fun dad, I am also the disciplinarian. — Johnny Knoxville

Fear of black independence and self-determination took a Freudian form: rape hysteria. In one town after another, racial violence was sparked by rumors that a Negro had harmed a white woman. This happened in Washington; Omaha, Neb.; Kansas City, Kan.; Knoxville, Tenn.; Longview, Tex.; and Rosewood, Fla. — Anonymous

I do get obsessed with constantly thinking of ideas, all day long, but that's just how it is. — Johnny Knoxville

When we were working on Jackass and I'd be traveling in the same bus, car, or van with Johnny Knoxville on road trips, he'd sometimes stick sedative pills in my food in the hope that they'd shut me up so he could enjoy some peace and quiet. Never once did it work. Each time, I think he was truly amazed at the doses of downers that failed to quiet me down. — Stephen "Steve-O" Glover

I want to do dramas. I want to do comedies. — Johnny Knoxville

I am nothing that isn't professional. — Johnny Knoxville

I'm your last choice," she said. "You tried everything, tasted everyone in Knoxville. And when the princess told you off, you came to me, the last ditch effort. — Lauren Gilley

Suffering will get you great footage. I don't know about closer to God. Although there have been times when I've suffered to the point where I think I might be about to meet him. — Johnny Knoxville