Top 79 Quotes & Sayings by Jeremy Wade - Page 2

I like taking people to a world they wouldn't normally go to and to creatures that a lot of people didn't know existed.

People assume I'm fearless. A lot of the things I deal with are pretty scary. Fear makes you pay attention - it's about absolute concentration.

With 'River Monsters', I am the investigator: here's the crime scene, I talk to witnesses, I establish a suspects list, I narrow it down; here's the prime suspect, I go and arrest the prime suspect - who often doesn't want to come quietly.

Being out on the water, you're very exposed. In the Amazon, one cause of death that's not uncommon is getting caught out in a storm. What people sometimes do is, they're out in the middle of the river, and the storm comes, so they go into the side of the river and a tree falls on top of them.

A lot of fish that live in the sea, they are your normal, nice, pretty, silvery, shiny fish.

I try to sneak a bit of education into the entertainment. We don't preach to people, but we do try to give them very strong messages.

The way that we live with potentially dangerous animals is not to kill them, but to understand them and to coexist with them.

I did a series in 2002 called 'Jungle Hooks.' We did a show on the arapaima fish, which is thought to be the largest freshwater fish in the world.

The 'Amazon Nessie' turned out to be a malformed pink river dolphin, so not a fish, although quite fish-like in appearance.

Bull sharks get quite a lot of bad press.

You don't necessarily have to go to some exotic location halfway around the world. You can find that other world very close to where you live.

I've been stabbed by a catfish. They've got quite sharp spines on their pectoral fins.

The most fascinating and satisfying encounter so far was the goliath tigerfish of the Congo. I first caught one in 1991, and then again while filming the second season of 'River Monsters' in 2009. Its appearance is quite unbelievable, like a giant piranha, with inch-long interlocking teeth.

Twenty-five years ago my two main target species were goliath tigerfish and arapaima from the Amazon. Each took me six years to track down and catch, over the course of three expeditions to the Congo and six to the Amazon.

Being in front of a class full of kids, you are giving a performance. You have to get their attention. You've got to awaken their curiosity. You become a bit of an entertainer.

I go to the Congo or the Amazon, but every river has its mystery of what is down there.

The worst thing that happened when filming 'River Monsters' was the time when our sound recordist was hit by lightning.

Fishing as a spectator sport in real time is the most boring thing you can imagine.

I've never caught muskie. That would be quite special.