Greg Behrendt Quotes

Magic, historically, has been a man doing tricks with no wider story behind it.

Magic is really performing special effects live.

If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.

MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.

Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand

As a magician, I try to show things to people that seem impossible. And I think magic, whether I'm holding my breath or shuffling a deck of cards, is pretty simple. It's practice, it's training, and It's practice, it's training and experimenting, while pushing through the pain to be the best that I can be. And that's what magic is to me.

Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin.

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

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.

Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.

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

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?'

Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.

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.

We all enjoy a magic show, but we don't demand a Q&A afterward explaining how it was done.

The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.

If one must explain a magic trick, one should do so after the show is over.

I always liked magic. I was always embarrassed by liking magic because I liked the fact that they're just lying.

This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.

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.

One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror.

Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but I'm more interested in telling a story.

In circuses, there is a lot of magic. Things become other things.

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.

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.