Top 50 Quotes & Sayings by Johnny Knoxville

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Johnny Knoxville.

Last updated on December 23, 2024.

Philip John Clapp, best known professionally as Johnny Knoxville, is an American stunt performer, actor, and filmmaker. He is best known as a co-creator and star of the MTV reality stunt show Jackass, which aired for three seasons from 2000 to 2002. A year later, Knoxville and his co-stars returned for the first installment in the Jackass film series, with a second and third installment being released in 2006 and 2010, respectively. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013), the first film in the series with a storyline, saw him star as his Jackass character Irving Zisman. Jackass Forever was released in 2022. Jackass 4.5 (2022) is said to be his final installment of the Jackass franchise.

American - Actor | Born: March 11, 1971

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

Johnny Knoxville

The worse the reviews, the better for our demographic.

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.

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

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

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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

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

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.

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I'm just basking in the glory.

Johnny Knoxville

I pretty much operate on adrenaline and ignorance.

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

Johnny Knoxville

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

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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.

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Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious.

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

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I think everyone roots for the underdog.

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

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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

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.

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

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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 want to do dramas. I want to do comedies.

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People go to car races to watch the crashes.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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I don't care what other people think.

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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.

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

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

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

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If someone hits me I consider it a challenge.

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

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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.

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I love Louisiana. It's amazing.

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

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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.

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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

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.

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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.

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I think I'm a little concussed.

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

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!

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I am nothing that isn't professional.

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I feel like my eyes have gonorrhea.

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But I can still lick the spoon!

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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.

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

Johnny Knoxville

I love the tabloids except for when I'm in 'em. Especially with the stuff they wrote about Jessica and I - it's obviously not true.

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