Steve Truglia Quotes

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

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

As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.

When you're learning how to do magic, the first rule is 'never reveal a secret.' In a way, by telling someone I'm a magician, it kind of gives away the best secret of all... How interesting to take the magician out of the equation of a magic show.

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

Misdirection is one of my strengths.

Economic theorists should not make such a production about taking a rabbit out of a hat after having put the rabbit into the hat in full view of the audience.

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

Magic things are fond of deceptions.

Because I have been a magician for many years, people have often asked me whether I ever have sawn a woman in half. I reply, Oh, yes I've sawn over seventy women in half in my lifetime, and I'm learning the second half of the trick now.

I had loved magic tricks from the time I was six or seven. I bought books on magic. I did magic acts for my parents and their friends. I was aiming for show business from early days, and magic was the poor man's way of getting in: you buy a trick for $2, and you've got an act.

It’s in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein.

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.'

Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?

I am often dishonest in my techniques ... I happily admit to cheating, it's all part of the game. I hope some of the fun for the viewer comes from not knowing what's real and what isn't

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.

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

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.

As a close-up magician, I was using gambling cheating techniques.

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.

Magic is all about directing attention. If I didn't want you to look at my right hand then I don't look at it.

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

Every time you perform a magic trick, you're engaging in experimental psychology. If the audience asks, 'How the hell did he do that?' then the experiment was successful.

The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.