David Blaine Quotes

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

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.

I definitely went through my magic phase. I think all little boys do at some point or another - they get fascinated by magic tricks.

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.

I remember finding a Houdini book at the library and seeing an image of him chained on the side of a building. He looked so intense and scary, and I couldn't get that image out of my head. That started building up my love of magic.

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

As a kid, I always was obsessed with Houdini.

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

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.

Magic is really performing special effects live.

I've had dreams about tricks.

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

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.

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.

I'm a magician, like David Blaine. I could never fall.

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

You know, I'm not very good at magic - I can only do half of a trick. Yes - I'm a member of the Magic Semi-circle.

I think magic, whether I'm holding my breath or shuffling a deck of cards, is pretty simple. It's practice, it's training, and it's - It's practice, it's training and experimenting, while pushing through the pain to be the best that I can be.

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.

Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.