Steve Buscemi Quotes

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.

When I came to Mumbai from Dubai to become an actor, I used to entertain people at parties by showing some card tricks.

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.

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

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

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.

When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.

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

I did magic at children's parties when I was a kid.

One day, I saw a magic show, and I was like, 'I have to learn how to do this!' Every time I went to Las Vegas, I had to get at least two or three tricks from the magic shops.

I grew up like Athena - covered with playing cards instead of armor - and, at the age of seven, materialized on a TV show, doing magic.

The only secret of magic is that I'm willing to work harder on it than you think it's worth.

I intend to do the Penn & Teller show until they pry my cheesy magic wand from my cold dead fingers.

All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.

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

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.

A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.

I don't have the attention span to practice sleight of hand.

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

You have to learn certain skills to present magic.

Magic is the oldest part of the show business profession. It can now be used as a forward-thinking tool to build a child's confidence. It has been an amazing part in many entertainers' lives, including Steve Martin and the late Johnny Carson.

When I first came to L.A., I worked at the Magic Castle, and it was so much fun. But the best part of magic for me these days is not having to do it for a living. It's being able to pull a trick out when people least expect it, when they don't know that you do magic.

Magic is the Special Olympics of entertainment.

If I had auditioned for 'Merlin' on magic alone, I don't think I'd have got it. Like any kid, I probably had a magic kit, but it's not something I ever pursued. I've never watched a magic show like David Copperfield or used him to base my character on, but I really like David Blaine and Darren Brown. They are doing wonders.

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.