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As a kid, I was a Hitchcock lover; I cared about the dark side of things.
The more they pay you the more they will respect you and enjoy your show.
I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.
I think the negative reinforcement really helped me in my very beginnings.
But when I go off stage I don't have a deck of cards with me all the time.
Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being.
I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself.
Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.
When you're a guy and meet a girl the first time, you do whatever it takes.
Practice until it becomes boring, then practice until it becomes beautiful.
Look for all the world like you're counting the brain cells in his cranium.
My object is to mystify and entertain. I wouldn't deceive you for the world.
Heroin also makes people feel better, but I wouldn't recommend using heroin.
There is nothing miraculous about puzzles. Competent mentalism is miraculous.
When the mind, body, and spirit work together, I believe anything is possible.
When you think like a child your imagination is free and anything is possible.
I want to ride my motorcycle up the side of the Luxor to the light and vanish.
When I am on the road and heading to my next venue, I think about my audience.
Nothing I do can't be done by a ten-year-old...with fifteen years of practice.
These are the routines that originally 'put me on the map' in the magic world.
Writing is the only thing in my life that doesn't get easier. It just doesn't.
The world sums you up by the clothes that you wear, and treats you accordingly.
You can always make time to do the thing you want to do, if you want it enough.
Magicians have taken something intrinsically profound and made it look trivial.
It probably is harder to fool people when they know they're going to be fooled.
Most magicians are nothing more than laymen with rabbits on their business cards
The New Age? Its just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.
If I could climax as many times as a Derek Dingle routine I would be a happy man!
The similarities among different kinds of audiences far outweigh the differences.
I think great whites are the most beautiful and perfect creatures I've ever seen.
The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.
The New Age? It's just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.
The book says we may be through with the past but the past ain't through with us.
To most people who have a point of view, merely being on TV is an intrinsic good.
I sought a great performer who would deeply impress me, and I found Lior Suchard.
As children we believe that anything is possible, the trick is to never forget it.
Magic was a thing that, when I did it, it made all the kids go, "Ah, that's cool."
You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts.
Magicians have done controlled testing in human perception for thousands of years.
I'm fascinated by the similarities and differences between comedians and magicians.
Do what you love. When you love your work, you become the best worker in the world.
We owe it to our kids to inform them and train them how to think, not what to think.
When a magician lets you notice something on your own, his lie becomes impenetrable.
I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.
I have a policy of not saying anything negative about anything another magician does.
Please select a card. No I don't have to see the card...I've already seen this trick.
I think if you would have cut Houdini with a knife, blood wouldn't come out, PR would.
All things which are similar and therefore connected, are drawn to each other's power.
There are three different kinds of scripting: functional, informational and emotional.
I always assumed I'd spend my life happily performing in artsy-fartsy little theaters.