Catherine Fisher Quotes

I love magic. Like, 'pull a scarf out of your fake thumb' magic. I have a legit bag of 'Magic Stuff' in my garage.

Magicians are the people who began to use film as an illusion on stage.

What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.

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

You have to learn certain skills to present magic.

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

You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons from, you don't really know how they're doing it.

I'm a magician. I've learned to do some really cool tricks like levitating myself and melting forks.

The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again.

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

Mentalist is the technical term for what I do and it covers everything from psychic medium through Uri Geller, through to magicians doing tricks with a mental theme.

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.

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.

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.

When I did my first few television specials, my illusions were so advanced that it took a couple of years before the other illusionists could even figure out what I was doing, let alone try to imitate me.

I am a street performer as much as I am a stage performer. Yes, I have a television show, but every trick, every 'Mindfreak' you see, I can do live.

Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books.

For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It's like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat.

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

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.

There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general.

It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.

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

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

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