Seanan McGuire Quotes

I'm a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.

No other entertainer in the world ever took the risks that Liberace took.

I don't mind being a bit of a showman.

When the fans were watching my dad, you could never tell if this was real or is this fake, and that's what made him so special. Every ounce of energy went to being The Nature Boy.

But when I go off stage I don't have a deck of cards with me all the time.

When I first came to L.A., I worked at the Magic Castle, and it was so much fun. But the best part of magic for me these days is not having to do it for a living. It's being able to pull a trick out when people least expect it, when they don't know that you do magic.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

As readers, we sense when the game is being played for real and when something else is afoot: pride, showmanship, the pursuit of power, self-aggrandizement, revenge, making money. Not that there's anything wrong with any of that, but I dislike closing a book with the sense that I've been had.

The showbiz world has to be manipulated to make it more interesting because most people's lives are boring.

I'm a total performer.

From the age of 8, I learned that nothing in the entertainment industry is real. It's all fake. Your face, your clothes, what you say - it's all a fake.

Anyone can become a game show host. It simply requires a giant, narcissistic ego and an inability to do anything else. The closest thing to school I did was looking in the mirror one hundred times a day and repeating, 'People should listen to you talk.'

I'm Liberace without a piano.

Modern American magic, late 20th century magic, is tremendously disrespectful of the audience.

… he must deceive, misrepresent, leave false impressions … and trust to charm, loyalty and the result to make up for it…. A great man cannot be a good man.

I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.

To be an entertainer, you gotta be a little gutsy, a little egotistical, so you have to pull back sometimes when people say, 'Well, he's stuck-up.' 'Stuck-up' is only another word for self-conscious.

I'm an actor. I can make anyone believe anything. I don't have to know what the hell I'm talking about.

I think I'm just a comedian who's a pretty good con man, and I don't see that changing any time soon.

I always loved to be a ham and be at the center of attention, always in everybody's faces.

The mind starts to do things that you didn't even realize it could do. I suppose it's the manipulation. I suppose it's the sense of power, the center of attention, and the me-ism. And performers have to have that.

Showbiz and churches are the same thing. You never saw 'The Wizard of Oz?'

You know, Rock's a good guy. He's a great entertainer, and I thought we could have done good things together.

I'm a showman.

If you're shameless enough, you can sell anything.