I don't see that we're any different than many, many people that are out there. And it's hard to kind of accept something like we're larger than life, super-people or something like that.

It's the results that are surprising, even results where we've totally screwed up, and then learned something in the process, are the ones that stand out. Having our preconceptions overturned is actually thrilling for us.

If we knew what we were doing we wouldn't be entertaining.

One of the main reasons for success on the show is that we're not a demonstration show. We're an experimentation show.

If you get the question right, if you really define it, then the answers are just sitting there waiting for you. And it's something a little different than people usually think.

Occasionally, you know, a myth is specific with a certain model of car, you know, like a Corvette or whatever. And so we end up spending some cash on those.

Neither Adam or I are scientists, we're not engineers or anything of the sort. We just have a lot of fun and the thing is, fun for us happens to involve science and satisfying our curiosity.

Adam's impulsive and energetic, and I'm calm and methodical.

We're fond of pointing out that we've known each other for over 25 years now and not once sat down alone to have dinner together. We pretty much avoid spending whatever time together that we can.

As far as I'm concerned, raising the bar or encouraging kids in large numbers to be interested in science, I can't think of anything I'd rather see happen.

Arachnophobia' was one of the first films I did major effects for.

Both Adam and I come from a practical effects background.

Miles Flannery - he's a beast. Very talented, but a brute. He's one of three guys who help us keep the shop maintained, help us set up on location and assist in building something if time is short.

I think when you do stuff in a computer people tend to dismiss it. It also allows you to make a lot of stuff totally not connected with reality because you're not limited by any kind of reality.

I never dreamed we would be on television at all, much less for such a long time and with so much praise for keeping a thought provoking show on the air. And best of all, we were able to do what we do and still have all our fingers and toes.

A good urban legend is something that actually did happen but it got twisted in the telling over time.

If you build a robot, you're welding, machining sculpting, casting, dealing with electronics and hydraulics.

Science is for anyone who wants to explore their world and understand things.

We seriously irritate each other and don't want to spend any time together. And yet we have a profound respect for the partnership. We're like a couple of dogs with a rag.

Personally I'm more into science and engineering types of things, not so much into testing 'Star Wars' myths.

You have to remember that I'm a guy who is happiest in a dark room just thinking.

I'm not a sociable person. I don't like to talk.

I'm not an early adopter of technology unless I consider it absolutely indispensable.

I pretty much just use my smartphone for phone calls.

Pepper spray, a Taser, a suckling pig and a self-built motorized spit. It's a perfect Thanksgiving, 'MythBusters'-style.

When I watch a movie I don't really care too much about the plot - not that it isn't important, but what I remember is the visual imagery, something that happens in an individual scene.

Terry Gilliam has directed some of the best examples of what I like to see in a film - one of them being 'Baron Munchausen.'

We're not too out there to educate people about any specific thing necessarily so much as we are to encourage critical and scientific thinking.

We've gotten quite creative with our use of explosives... It's almost like an art form, rather than just blowing crap up.

I'm sort of reluctant to celebrity.

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 was a problematic kid, to be sure.

I am pretty much who I seem, and it's not a television host.

When I was in school, shop class was where the kids that weren't good in anything to do with books went.

Over time, shop classes sort of disappeared or got marginalized in the states. I don't really know why. Now with tech like 3-D printers and CNCs, shops have acquired a new shine.

I'm excited about all technology.

I think anybody who's curious about anything, including their own mind, is inherently a skeptic.

The only way we can fly planes and use computers is because people were curious about their world and also skeptical about the things they were told to be immutable, so they figured out other ways of doing things.

Adam and I don't consider ourselves friends. We don't spend any time together that we don't have to.

Running out of material for 'MythBusters' is like saying, 'We've done everything we could possibly do and we're not curious or interested in anything.' Let's hope that never happens.

I believe that life is hard. That we all are going to walk through things that are hard and challenging, and yet advertising wants us to believe that it's all easy.

I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.

I'm going to look the way God intends me to look... with a little help from Manolo Blahnik.

I have very short hair. It's the only cute haircut I think I've ever had.

I don't think any woman wants to be known for being beautiful or busty. I think you want to be known for who you are.

I've etched out who I am through myriad haircut attempts, outfit attempts, beauty attempts, diet attempts. It's been an evolution.

The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.

I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.

Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.