Free Solo (2018)

Alex Honnold: Self

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• Alex Honnold : Anyone can be happy and cosy. Nothing good happens in the world by being happy and cosy.

• Alex Honnold : I think it's the best thing in life to be able to take the one thing you love the most and have it, like, work out that you can make a living that way.

• Alex Honnold : I try to expand my comfort zone by practicing the moves over and over again. I work through the fear, until it's just not scary anymore.

• Alex Honnold : My friends are like, Oh, that'd be terrible, but if I kill myself in an accident, they'll be like, Oh, that was too bad, but like life goes on, you know, like they'll be fine. I mean, and I've had this problem with girls a lot, you know. They're like, Oh, I really care about you, I'm like, No you don't. Like if I perish, like, it doesn't matter, like you'll find somebody else, like, that's not, that's not that big a deal.

• Alex Honnold : You're standing on tiny edges, small variations in the texture of the rock. If you slip, your hands can't hold you. It's just the two tiny points of contact that keep you from falling, and when you step up, there's only one.

• Alex Honnold : Having the girlfriend in the van is awesome. I mean, she's cute and small and, like, livens the place up a bit, doesn't take up too much room. I mean, it's, pretty much makes life better in every way.

• Alex Honnold : My Mom's favorite sayings are, Presque ne compte pas, Almost doesn't count, or, uh, Good enough isn't. No matter how well I ever do at anything, it's not that good. The bottomless pit of self-loathing. I mean, that's definitely the motivation for some soloing.

• Alex Honnold : The big challenge is controlling your mind, I guess. Because you're not, you're not controlling your fear, you're sort of just trying to step outside of it.

• Alex Honnold : I like having fun when I have fun. I don't like being told that it's time to have fun.

• Alex Honnold : So I could just, like, not do certain things, but then you have, like, weird simmering resentment because it's things that you love most in life have now been squashed.

• Alex Honnold : Maybe my amygdala is just tired, you know, from too many years of being all gripped.