Matt McGorry Quotes

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

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

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.

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'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.

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.

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

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.

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'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.

All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.

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 went to NYU completely with the idea I wanted to be the next David Copperfield.

I've always performed magic as a kid.

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.

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 was damn lucky to choose this profession. I had no idea when I started out that I was really an illusionist and a magician.

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.

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.

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 don't put a girl in a box and clap my hands three times, and she's gone. I get in the box, and I vanish, and I reappear at the other side of the stage. That way, people don't think, 'That's a great illusion.' They think, 'Doug's a great magician.'