Steve Buscemi Quotes

If you want to talk about magic, the stuff that blows me away is the stuff that's done close up.

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

I've always performed magic as a kid.

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

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

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

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.

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.

The problem with stage magic is that it looks really good, but everyone knows there's a trick box.

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 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.

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.

If people are fans of 'Mindfreak,' they are going to be so excited with 'Believe.' They are actually going to see those illusions that people think can only happen with trick photography.

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 a magician. I've learned to do some really cool tricks like levitating myself and melting forks.

Growing up, yeah, I had a magic kit with learn tricks and learn card tricks, but I was never... I used to watch whatever magic special was on as a kid, but then, it's not that I lost interest, but to be a magician, you really, it's really hard work. Learning lines is hard enough; learning sleight of hand, that's real practice.

It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.

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

I've always done magic as a hobby. I've done it professionally, too.

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

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