Johnny Knoxville

“I pretty much operate on adrenaline and ignorance.”

“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.”

“I'm the fun dad, I am also the disciplinarian.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I love Louisiana. It's amazing.”

“Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious.”

“I love the tabloids except for when I'm in 'em.”

“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.”

“I want to do dramas. I want to do comedies.”

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

“I don't care what other people think.”

“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.”

“People go to car races to watch the crashes.”

“I think everyone roots for the underdog.”

“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.”

“You were about five feet short of a ten feet jump?”

“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.”

“It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible.”