Mia Goth Quotes

I consider myself a showman, and I love magic, and I love art, and I love performance, and they're all separate.

But when I go off stage I don't have a deck of cards with me all the time.

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

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.

Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.

The real secret of magic lies in the performance.

When you're learning how to do magic, the first rule is 'never reveal a secret.' In a way, by telling someone I'm a magician, it kind of gives away the best secret of all... How interesting to take the magician out of the equation of a magic show.

For me, the most exciting thing is to create good magic that's entertaining for an audience, and it would be lovely if a magician was fooled as well.

When a magician lets you notice something on your own, his lie becomes impenetrable.

Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.

In circuses, there is a lot of magic. Things become other things.

I don't think you can say something is or isn't magic. That's what was cool about Houdini, because he was a magician who had a magic show, but he was also an escape artist, and they kind of, over time, blended together. They both kind of enhance each other, I think.

Magic is all about directing attention. If I didn't want you to look at my right hand then I don't look at it.

Film and theater are about misdirection and making the audience see something. I find it interesting. One of the things we do in 'True Blood' is shoot all of our stunts in camera. Instead of doing some kind of visual effect, we try to make it happen.

For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It's like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat.

You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons from, you don't really know how they're doing it.

I am a showman in the traditional sense, but modern, too. I like to use sets and lighting to create magic.

At the end of the day, acting is all about telling lies. We are professional imposters and the audience accept that. We've made this deal that we tell you a tale and a pack of lies, but there will be a truth in it. You may enjoy it, or it will disturb you.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

If you do sleight of hand without trying to cheat someone, that's what magic is.

Magic, whether it's mind magic or conjuring, is about the cheapest and quickest way of impressing people, and I think if you don't grow out of that as a magician then it shows, and people get a bit sick of that after a while, because it starts to feel like posturing. So I grew out of it.

Magic has both feet planted in cheap vaudeville and childish posturing; in dishonesty and therefore not in art.

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is - and not so much a matter of being real.

All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.