Kyle Quotes

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

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.

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 started performing when I was 9 or 10, doing magic.

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'm a magician. A lot of people don't know that I've won awards. I used to do big stage shows.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 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've been doing magic since I was five years old, and when I was trying to get acting gigs, I found I could make a good living at it. It's great to kind of shake the cobwebs off and get the feeling of a live audience again. I love close-up magic, the card stuff, the coin stuff, the really up-close David Blaine stuff.

Dai Vernon, the greatest sleight of hand figure in the history of the art, rarely performed. But he invented magic and had an enormous influence on the whole range of sleight of hand. And so often, the magic he was doing was to fool other magicians.

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

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.

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.

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?'

There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.

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

My goal was becoming the next David Copperfield. I learned how to be a performer by emulating him as a kid - his formula of just talking to people onstage, being free to improvise, being charming and witty with a crowd, together with great, beautiful magic.