The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.

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

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 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.

My wife said to me... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that.

It's hard to imagine that there are people in the country that have types of hateful, inexcusable, racist, white supremacist views.

I'm developing some new kinds of robotic firefighting vehicles to help with the massive forest fires we're dealing with in the West.

Happiness is seeing the muscular lifeguard all the girls were admiring leave the beach hand in hand with another muscular lifeguard.

They say atomic rad-i-ation can hurt your reproductive organs. My answer is, so can a hockey stick. But we don't stop building them.

When the public starts classifying you as thoughtful, someone given to serious issues, you find yourself declassified as a humorist.

You have sole custody of your life. Who you are today is not who you have to be tomorrow. Embrace the possibility of transformation.

I don't think vodka is useful. I think it's for people who don't like alcohol, in which case, you probably shouldn't be drinking it.

I don't view myself as a sex symbol. I think beautiful people come from within and that's how I look at it. I'm definitely not sexy.

The one guiding principle over my 23-year career in TV has been as long as I'm having fun, I really don't care what the job title is.

I've got nothing against gay marriage, it's not my issue. All right, I want homosexual Americans to be happy and to pursue happiness.

Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.

I would love to have access to a company like Caterpillar. I would make all their stuff remote controlled and work ten times as fast.

I grew up on an apple orchard with a lot of surrounding wooded area, and I ran everywhere. I was outside all the time climbing trees.

I wouldn't have the slightest interest in running for public office. I'd rather make jokes about politicians than become one of them.

What was particularly impressive by the [Donald] Trump campaign at the time is how they were so organized around the WikiLeaks stuff.

I'm not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.

Happiness is sitting down to watch some slides of your neighbor's vacation and finding out that he spent two weeks in a nudist colony.

As you all know by now, this is the 51st annual Academy Awards. Two hours of sparkling entertainment spread out over a four-hour show.

Adults ask questions as a child does. When you stop wondering, you might as well put your rocker on the front porch and call it a day.

People thought I was funny, so I kind of took entertaining for granted... it was inevitable that I'd start giving little performances.

Memorizing a playbook is like memorizing a script. When they change the script at the last minute it's like changing a play in a game.

The Democrats, because they believe in socialism, redistribution, forced the banks and financial institutions to make the risky loans.

I don't want to insert myself into the story. I just want to give a useful analysis of it to help people come to their own conclusions.

When Elton John sang a duet with the white rapper Eminem on a Grammy telecast, rap went mainstream. Massive parental headaches followed.

I'm giving life lessons and tips on how to take care of your emotional heart, because heart disease is the number-one killer in America.

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.

If you took a cracked pot and you cracked that cracked pot, you'd be approaching the level of cracked pottery we are talking about here.

We hear the word Warrior used to describe women and men who show up, give their very best, and refuse to quit until the goal is reached.

The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible parental behavior in vivid terms.

I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn't include someone the size of the Hindenburg.

It's hard not to let criticism make you feel bad about yourself - I do continue to struggle with that as an older woman in the workplace.

I've ended up water skiing behind the Stanford rowing team as well as water skiing behind an excavator while it swung around in a circle.

I care a lot about what my girlfriend thinks, and my friends, but ultimately it's me in the mirror. I just want to be proud of what I do.

Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised.

I've been able to read people my entire life, because I've interviewed people now for 20-some-odd years. So you can read people that way.

They established their patriotic credentials long ago, and are either supportive of the Bush agenda or know when to keep their traps shut.

It's a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.

Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.

It is sometimes hard to know what Sarah Palin means, just on a day to day basis. Sometimes it is hard to follow what she is talking about.

I wish every Republican wanted to impeach [Jeorge W.] Bush , but people don't agree with this. He's stating a fact about what he believes.

Did I get to go to my friends' houses and eat junk food? Sure. And I'm a great cook. And, guess what? There's no prepared food in my house.

I am a late discoverer of 'Friday Night Lights.' I cry every episode at least once. I love to cry - happy, emotional tears. I just love it.

It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.

An indispensable tool is a pair of diagonal cutting Knipex pliers. There isn't any other hand tool of any other brand that stands up to it.

I don't have any option. I'm not going to be less gay or more pretty. I can't try to have less personality or fewer controversial opinions.

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