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I'm inventing new principles. The audience has a point of view that no one can predict.
The hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful.
Please note that, at no point in the performance, does my hand leave the end of my arm.
People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.
I'm a woofer, not a tweeter; a writer, not a telegrapher; an essayist, not an aphorist.
Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.
If there isn't at least the threat of violence in art, it tends to be kind of tiresome.
If you read Shakespeare's stage directions, all the gore and violence is right in there.
Some of the best ideas I've gotten for my act have come from comedians and not magicians.
What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.
A fundamental understanding of the human psyche is the essential key to successful magic.
Magic clubs have as much to do with magic as country clubs have with being in the country.
To think of your creations in terms of better or worse- big mistake. They are your children.
I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
I am the Mindfreak, there's no Reality! Just this World of Illusion that keeps on haunting me.
If I asked you to stand in one spot for 35 hours or a certain length of time, you could do it.
I am very impressed by the thinking that went into The Clarity Box. David Regal is diabolical.
Sex can be great in your seventies - no Viagra needed - and it certainly beats fish and chips.
I love creating new things. It's kind of my job, it's what I do, and I really have fun with it.
I don't particularly have any magical ambitions, but then, I never did. I just enjoyed the game.
I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create.
The mere knowledge of secrets will not help the amateur conjurer very far on the road to success.
However, I believe that it would be difficult to have legitimate scientists agree to participate.
It's new and different every night. The charge you get from a good audience is like nothing else.
I am 5ft 6in and weigh about 11 stone - about a stone overweight, but that's because of my brain.
Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.
No one has the ability, that I'm aware of, to do anything supernatural, psychic, talk to the dead.
Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.
Normally, I do magic on the stage. But I can make magic credible and resonate through a TV screen.
Few things turn-off an audience more than a performer with an air of self-imporance or a 'message.'
Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn't mean it is simple.
You had to see yourself poor and think of yourself as being poor, or you never would have been poor.
We weren't poor growing up on Long Island, but it wasn't lavish - just a regular middle-class house.
The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.
All of the [Bob] Fosse-esque movements and point of view informed years and years of what I would do.
I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.
Nobody who is a Penn & Teller fan thinks of us first and foremost as magicians, but as a comedy team.
We have fought long and hard to escape from medieval superstition. I, for one, do not wish to go back.
I like being fooled. When I watch someone who does sleight-of-hand and fools me, it's a great feeling.
I've been a live performer longer than I've been a television performer. For me, live is where it's at.
As wonderful as it is, not everyone likes magic. Try to only share your magic with people who enjoy it.
Warranty A notice telling the buyer when the product that was just purchased will no longer function.
The first trick I bought at Macy's was a little wooden board where a quarter would appear and disappear.
A Bat meeting any one running away, signifies an evasion: for although she have no wings, yet she flies.
There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general.
I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and inspire.
If I produce a 450-pound Bengal tiger, it's going to create a lot more wonder than if I produce a rabbit.
My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.
Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.
I am in a very peculiar business: I travel all over the world telling people what they should already know.