David Pogue Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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?'

All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.

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

If you do sleight of hand without trying to cheat someone, that's what magic is.

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

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.

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.

Magic, historically, has been a man doing tricks with no wider story behind it.

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

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