Jonathan Scott Quotes

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?'

I suppose that if I could only do one thing, a solid card effect would be pretty high on the list. That's the root of it all, sleight-of-hand. It's certainly the thing I feel most comfortable with.

I always wanted to do magic tricks - I feel like that could be the the next wave.

My interest was magic, believe it or not. I became an amateur magician and did something like 400 magic shows through my teen years.

He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing.

I'm not a big fan of doing it because I get really frustrated because I can't do any of the tricks, but I love to watch magic.

I remember finding a Houdini book at the library and seeing an image of him chained on the side of a building. He looked so intense and scary, and I couldn't get that image out of my head. That started building up my love of magic.

If you want to talk about magic, the stuff that blows me away is the stuff that's done close up.

All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.

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

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.

I never quite know how to describe what I do. I normally just say, 'Oh, I'm a magician', which probably puts fairly naff ideas in people's minds but is pleasantly conversation-stopping.

I'm a magician, like David Blaine. I could never fall.

Because I have been a magician for many years, people have often asked me whether I ever have sawn a woman in half. I reply, Oh, yes I've sawn over seventy women in half in my lifetime, and I'm learning the second half of the trick now.

Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing a magic show and I was the volunteer from the audience.

My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.

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.

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.

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.

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

I went to NYU completely with the idea I wanted to be the next David Copperfield.

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.