Mike Hughes
Michael Hughes was an American stunt performer and limousine driver born in San Bernardino County, California.
Hughes was born on February 9, 1956, in San Bernardino County. He worked across two distinct occupations during his life, earning a living as a limousine driver while also taking on work as a stunt performer. The combination of those two roles — one grounded in everyday service, the other in physical risk-taking — defined the practical shape of his working years.
As an American citizen who lived and worked in the United States, Hughes carried out his activities in English. The details of his stunt work and his time behind the wheel of a limousine place him within a tradition of working-class American performers who pursued dangerous or unusual endeavors alongside more conventional employment. Neither role, taken on its own, fully captures the range of what he did, and the two together point to someone who moved between the ordinary and the hazardous as a matter of course.
Hughes died on February 22, 2020, in the Mojave Desert, just under two weeks after his sixty-fourth birthday. He had been born in San Bernardino County, and his death in the nearby Mojave Desert means that the arc of his life began and ended in the same broad stretch of Southern California. He was sixty-four years old at the time of his death.
The facts of Hughes's life center on physical work — the patient, repetitive labor of driving passengers and the high-risk, performance-driven work of a stunt performer. Those two threads, one workaday and one dangerous, run through what is known about him and give his biography its defining texture.
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Quotes by Mike Hughes
It is not a computer generated image, like you see on TV or some movie in Hollywood - this is the real thing a guy built, a rocket he's sitting in it and he can be dead in 10 seconds.
Everything in life is overcoming objectives. I don't care if you're picking up a woman in a bar or trying to jump a rocket over a river.
I've had people say so much, that I'm a fraud. I've had people email me and say, 'You're going to die.'
We are supposed to come to the end of our lives not with anything left, but everything exhausted. The tires are blown down, your out of gasoline, you are coming to a screeching halt - you know you have done everything you can possible do.
I think the world needs this - somebody out there to question everything, and put their money where their mouth is.
Most people just settle - for a job or relationship, or where we live. Here's the strange thing though: when you start going outside the box and questioning things, then people - because we're taught this - start ridiculing you.