Michael Carbonaro Quotes

I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That's why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things a person can do.

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 don't think you can say something is or isn't magic. That's what was cool about Houdini, because he was a magician who had a magic show, but he was also an escape artist, and they kind of, over time, blended together. They both kind of enhance each other, I think.

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.

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

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

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

I'm doing everything I can to take the magician out of the equation of 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.

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.

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

I did magic at children's parties when I was a kid.

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.

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

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

There's magic all around us: Our smartphones are magical, 3-D printers are magical. So I feel that as a magician, if I can pull off something that seems real and convincing enough that I can explain why it's happening and have people believe it, it really is fascinating. And funny.

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.

A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.

We all enjoy a magic show, but we don't demand a Q&A afterward explaining how it was done.

If you do magic, it's the quickest most fraudulent route to impressing people.

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

Magic was a thing that, when I did it, it made all the kids go, "Ah, that's cool."

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.'