Keith Barry Quotes

As a close-up magician, I was using gambling cheating techniques.

You have to learn certain skills to present magic.

There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.

Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books.

When I was six years old, I fell in love with magic. For Christmas, I got a magic box and a very old book on card manipulation. Somehow, I was more interested in pure manipulation than in all the silly little tricks in the box.

My goal was becoming the next David Copperfield. I learned how to be a performer by emulating him as a kid - his formula of just talking to people onstage, being free to improvise, being charming and witty with a crowd, together with great, beautiful magic.

Chicago is a big town for magicians and card hustlers. So when I was very young, a fellow sat me down and taught me the Three-Card Monte. And that kind of put me in a - pointed me towards easy money.

"Do you like card tricks?" "No, I hate card tricks," I answered. "Well, I'll just show you this one." He showed me three.

I can juggle, not well... I can balance a broom on my chin. I can do very simple carny tricks, a little sleight of hand with cards and coins.

I'm friends with Criss Angel. Criss has offered me a million times to go downstairs and see the setup. I don't want to see it. I just want to go, 'God, how did you do that?'

All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.

Growing up, yeah, I had a magic kit with learn tricks and learn card tricks, but I was never... I used to watch whatever magic special was on as a kid, but then, it's not that I lost interest, but to be a magician, you really, it's really hard work. Learning lines is hard enough; learning sleight of hand, that's real practice.

It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.

I started performing when I was 9 or 10, doing magic.

I had a magic kit. I never really followed through on it, but I had my phase of wanting to do it, sure.

I definitely went through my magic phase. I think all little boys do at some point or another - they get fascinated by magic tricks.

For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights.

Nobody who is a Penn & Teller fan thinks of us first and foremost as magicians, but as a comedy team.

I've always performed magic as a kid.

Magic is like special effects live, and I love to perform, so it sounded like doing magic tricks were a good way to entertain people.

David Blaine, I think, was the first TV magician to really turn the camera around and make it about the spectator's experience. That's really what magic is all about.

I've had dreams about tricks.

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

I've always done magic as a hobby. I've done it professionally, too.

I love magic. Like, 'pull a scarf out of your fake thumb' magic. I have a legit bag of 'Magic Stuff' in my garage.