Quotes by Criss Angel - Page 2

I wish what I do was all real. Some of it's real, some of it's an illusion and I try to blur the line between both, but unfortunately I've got to be honest with you. Taking a $1 bill and turning it into a $100 - unfortunately it's not real.
Criss Angel / Magician
Blur
Real
Trying
Wish
Bill
Turning
Unfortunately
To Be Honest
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Houdini connected to people on an emotional level so that when he would escape that straight jacket it wasn't about the straight jacket. It was about people looking at it and escaping poverty. When you have that it's the truest form of magic.
Criss Angel / Magician
Connected
Form
Houdini
Magic
Poverty
Truest
He
Emotional Level
Escape
Jacket
Straight
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Magic is the oldest part of the show business profession. It can now be used as a forward-thinking tool to build a child's confidence. It has been an amazing part in many entertainers' lives, including Steve Martin and the late Johnny Carson.
Criss Angel / Magician
Confidence
Amazing
Children
Entertainers
Including
Late
Magic
Profession
Show Business
Thinking
Build
Child
Show
Johnny
Oldest
Steve
Steve Martin
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I used to think that if I had success I would have freedom. But I have less freedom now than I've ever had. And what gives me satisfaction is not the jewelry and not the cars. What gives me satisfaction is doing things for others, like children.
Criss Angel / Magician
Children
Giving
Jewelry
Satisfaction
Thinking
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Picking locks or handcuffs for me is not really a big deal, I can do it pretty much in seconds, I've been doing since I was 14 years old. I used to sit on my bed as a kid with a pick set and you know just picking locks and stuff, so I'm used to it.
Criss Angel / Magician
Bed
Big Deal
Locks
Seconds
Me Doing I Can
Me Doing Old
Pick
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Well, I had an immense respect for Cirque du Soleil when I first say them in the '80s on a television show and just thought, you know, this group is really reinventing the circus, as you know. Because there wasn't three rings. There were no animals.
Criss Angel / Magician
Animal
Circus
Firsts
Immense
Reinventing
Rings
Animals
Group
Television Show
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I think we can really use magic in a way never attempted before to inspire these children, help rally their self-confidence and even help them develop social skills. This is a national effort, not just here in Las Vegas. I know we can give them a true passion.
Criss Angel / Magician
Children
Effort
Inspire
Las Vegas
Magic
Passion
Self Confidence
Skills
Social Skills
Vegas
Attempted
Develop
Rally
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One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness.
Criss Angel / Magician
Art
Cells
Century
Chinese
Drowning
Helplessness
Houdini
Inspiration
Primal
Remains
Torture
Triumph
Water
He
Cell
Defied
Demonstrations
Early
Escape
Fears
Harry
His
Over
Icon
Inspirations
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I have mentally overcome situations most of you would be terrified to ever attempt: heights, fire, needles, spiders, snakes, angry monkeys, being shot, being hit by a car, going blind - you name it, I have been in a situation where I have had to mentally overcome my inherent fears to do my job.
Criss Angel / Magician
Jobs
Angry
Blind
Fire
Inherent
Monkeys
Needles
Situation
Snakes
Spiders
Terrified
Overcome
Mentally
Attempt
Hit
Shot
Fears
Heights
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I came up with the term 'mindfreak' because I didn't like the word 'magician.' I felt like I wanted to coin a term that would be basically the reaction to my art. It would be a mindfreak and so that's why I came up with that. But, many people say I'm really a student of humanity and psychology.
Criss Angel / Magician
Art
Humanity
Magician
People
Psychology
Term
Coin
Student
People Say
Reaction
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I put my life in danger every time I do some of these demonstrations, whether it's in the audience hanging upside down or on the stage. We now have a lot of dangerous stunts where anything can go wrong. In fact, I have fallen two stories and landed on the stage, so I am well aware of the dangers.
Criss Angel / Magician
Audience
Danger
Facts
Stage
Stories
Two
Upside Down
Life Time I Am
Dangers
Demonstrations
Landed
Every Time
In Fact
Stunts
Upside
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Oprah is signed on to help, and a lot of celebrity friends have agreed to help me raise money for Make-A-Wish. We want to make the world a better place for innocent children. I cried my heart out when my father died from cancer. I wish I was smarter, wiser like a doctor, to save these children from dying.
Criss Angel / Magician
Better Place
Cancer
Children
Cried
Died
Dying
Father
Innocent
Smarter
Wiser
Agreed
Doctor
Oprah
Raise
Save
Signed
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One of the most gratifying things I get as an artist is when people watch me do these different demonstrations, and they in some way feel empowered by what I'm doing so they can confront their own fears. Maybe it's the fear of getting in an elevator; maybe it's the fear of going on a plane and seeing the world.
Criss Angel / Magician
Empowered
Seeing
Fear World Me
Confront
Demonstrations
Elevator
Fears
Gratifying
Plane
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There are somewhere between 20,000 and 30,000 working magic professionals in the world, and since we debuted our Magic Kit, we have sold over 1 million. So it's for people who have a strong interest, but be it for one trick or a lifetime, we will be there for them. We will guide them so they don't waste their money.
Criss Angel / Magician
Lifetime
Magic
Strong
Waste
Money World People
Since
Working
Guide
Trick
Million
Professionals
Sold
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You can just go to a magic shop or magic builder and buy what most magicians do, but that's not what I'm about. With 'Mindfreak' on television and 'Believe' live, I want to bring things that people have never seen before. That process is very difficult. It's very challenging, and you never know how long it's going to take - months or years.
Criss Angel / Magician
Believe
Builder
Long
Magic
Months
Process
Television
Years
Believe Long People
Buy
Magicians
Shop
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Well I think everything up to this point that I've been exposed to in my life has had an influence on me in some way, shape, or form even if I'm not conscious of it. So I definitely think that my studies in wu-shu, kung-fu, karate, kenpo, taikwando, all of that stuff certainly has an affect. I don't think I follow any discipline traditionally.
Criss Angel / Magician
Conscious
Discipline
Exposed
Shapes
Thinking
Life Me My Life
Life Discipline Me
Affect
Studies
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The days of television as we knew it growing up are over. You have a bigger, wider world audience on the Internet, larger than any American television series. People don't watch television in the same context as before. Nowadays they watch their television on the Internet at their convenience. That's the whole wave, and it's now - not the future.
Criss Angel / Magician
Growing Up
Over You
People
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Everything that I spent my entire life dedicated to, which is this art of mentalism, of magic... I don't see it and feel it and experience it like I first did when I was getting involved in this art. I try to look at it as a spectator but unless I get amnesia I still can't overlook that. I can appreciate the performance but I would love to be fooled.
Criss Angel / Magician
Art
Appreciate
Magic
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Really believe in yourself, and that no matter what anyone says to you, if you really have a dream and the passion - go for it! If you're willing to go through the rigors to get it, it will happen. It may not happen in your timeframe, but it will happen. I'm living proof of that. I was once on the other end of the spectrum, and now I'm living my dream. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
Criss Angel / Magician
Dream
Believe
Passion
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