Johnny Knoxville quotes:

Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious.

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.

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

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.

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.

I don't care what other people think.

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.

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

I love Louisiana. It's amazing.

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.

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.

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.

I pretty much operate on adrenaline and ignorance.

What an honor that Stephen Prouty got nominated for best makeup and hairstyling for 'Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa'. Am I as stunned as everyone else we didn't get the nod for best picture? Well of course, duh, but I won't let that take away from my happiness for Steve, Tony Gardner, and our whole makeup team. Wahoo!

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

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.

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

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'm just basking in the glory.

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?

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.

People go to car races to watch the crashes.

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

I feel like my eyes have gonorrhea.

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

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

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

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

I don't remember the first stunt I ever did.

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.

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

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.

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

I think I'm a little concussed.

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.

If someone hits me I consider it a challenge.

But I can still lick the spoon!

Being a complete juvenile delinquent helped me grow up a little.

I am nothing that isn't professional.

I want to do dramas. I want to do comedies.

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.

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

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

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

I think everyone roots for the underdog.