Jesse Eisenberg Quotes

I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.

I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.

Carefully take notice of witches, charmers, and all such abusers of the people.

There is no magic. There are only magicians.

What I do is rooted in magic - it's got a big foot planted firmly in conjuring, even if the other foot's planted in psychological techniques.

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.

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.

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.

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

If you do sleight of hand without trying to cheat someone, that's what magic is.

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

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

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

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.

Magicians are the most honest people in the world; they tell you they're gonna fool you, and then they do it.

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

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.

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

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

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

Great liars are also great magicians.

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.

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

For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It's like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat.