Seneca the Younger Quotes

If you go to a magic show, you don't want to see logic.

If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.

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.

Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand

Magic things are fond of deceptions.

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

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.

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

Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.

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

But the whole idea of the transformation... mystery, transformation, and manipulations - those were the things that Marcel was a magician at. That's his magic.

I always say that I love magic but I hate magicians. I like being fooled. If you wave your hands in front of my face and I think you're doing a trick, I'm easily impressed. If you pull a quarter out of my ear, I'm quite certain you're a wizard. But I don't like the way most magicians don't act like they're magical; they act like show business dicks.

This time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done.

Disappearing act? That's a magic trick, isn't it? I like magic tricks!

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

It's still magic even if you know how it's done.

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.'

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.

Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but I'm more interested in telling a story.

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

I realised how much misdirection is in stunt co-coordinating. It's similar to magic, the tricks we use to make people think the stunt is real. I also have a lifelong fascination with gambling cheats. I'm not one, but I do have a fascination with it.

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

One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane.

I'm friends with Criss Angel. Criss has offered me a million times to go downstairs and see the setup. I don't want to see it. I just want to go, 'God, how did you do that?'

There is no magic. There are only magicians.