Janice Dickinson Quotes

Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?

I've been fooling the public for years and I'm really good at it.

Great liars are also great magicians.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

But the whole idea of the transformation... mystery, transformation, and manipulations - those were the things that Marcel was a magician at. That's his magic.

I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.

I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.

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.

The whole world is run on bluff.

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

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.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.

I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't.

Well, I also love magic, which is, you know, different than showmanship. Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder.

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

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.

If you do magic, it's the quickest most fraudulent route to impressing people.

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

All magic is 'Here’s a quarter, now it’s gone. You’re a jerk. Now it’s back. You’re an idiot. Show’s over.'

I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.

The world loves to be deceived.

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

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

Of course, in all magic tricks there's a secret.