Scott Steiner Quotes

If you go to a magic show, you don't want to see logic.

Movies started out as an extension of a magic trick, so making a spectacle is part of the game.

The problem with stage magic is that it looks really good, but everyone knows there's a trick box.

I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That's why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things a person can do.

I first read about hypnotism at school, and I used to do tricks like getting a really skinny guy to arm wrestle the local bully.

MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner.

Disappearing act? That's a magic trick, isn't it? I like magic tricks!

WHOAAAA. THERE GOES CODY RHOOOOODESSSS. WHOAAAA. YOU'RE ONLY SMOKE AND MIRRORSSSSSSS. WHOAAAA. YOU'RE ONLY SMOKE AND MIRRORSSSSSSS. What's up, man?

Are we so desperate for entertainment that we will fall for a Trickless magician?? Saw a woman in half. Pull a rabbit out of a hat. Do something! What tricks does this guy have? "I'm in a box...and I ain't gonna eat.". "I'm in a box... and I ain't gonna eat!!" That ain't no trick! That's called living in the projects!

I was watching the Superbowl with my 92 year old grandfather. The team scored a touchdown. They showed the instant replay. He thought they scored another one. I was gonna tell him, but I figured the game HE was watching was better.

I fell in love with magic acts and bridged into that.

An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.

Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.

I think the best thing about being dumb is that it makes magic a lot better. Where the hell did that rat come from? I dunno, but I'm calling the cops because he just cut that lady in half.

We believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?

I love fire. Fire is hypnotic.

ECW stands for Extremely Crappy Wrestling.

The fans of our industry are extremely savvy. At the end of the day, they understand the business is a work. It's entertainment, nothing more.

When I'm interviewed on Leno, just be funny, period. That's all they want from me. I don't want to tell my life story.

You know, I'm not very good at magic - I can only do half of a trick. Yes - I'm a member of the Magic Semi-circle.

Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man's vision.

I'm one of the few reading and thinking people who loves Las Vegas for the vulgarity and omnipresence of the dream. The collective dream. There's something enormous about it. Let me say one thing: Las Vegas and cinema have similar roots. The country fair. The magician at the country fair. The vulgarity of the country fair.

You have but little more to do than throw up your cap for entertainment these American days.... Farmers' sons will stare by the hour to see a juggler draw ribbons from his throat, though he tells them it is all deception. Surely, men love darkness rather than light.

I don't know what it is about accents that makes me want to get undressed and high-five myself.

I went to a freak show and they let me in for nothing.