Tim Duncan Quotes

Merlin is, in the terms of the world of magic, one of the most intriguing and powerful characters.

You immediately hear the word 'Merlin,' you think magic, you think adventure, excitement - you also think 'an old man.'

As we Wizards go, I'm pretty harmless.

When I was playing Gandalf, I didn't think, 'Oh my dear, I'm playing a 7,000 year old wizard,' because I've never met one, and I don't know what they're like.

I'm no wizard, and I don't like being thought of in that light at all. I think of a wizard as being some sort of magician or something, doing something on the sly or something, and I don't want to be thought of in that way.

The Wizard War

I was afraid that not even Merlin the Enchanter could transform me into a writer.

So many different countries have got their version of what Merlin is: the Scottish say he Scottish, the Welsh say he's Welsh, the French say he's French.

There is magic, but you have to be the magician. You have to make the magic happen.

I love being a wizard. Every day is like Disneyland.

I did magic all my life from the time I was 12, and I like to tap into the magic from history.

I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it's grounded in reality.

I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.

I grew up like Athena - covered with playing cards instead of armor - and, at the age of seven, materialized on a TV show, doing magic.

Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

When you hear the words 'magic' and 'story', they will probably evoke thoughts of your favourite fairy tales from childhood. Storybook pages abound with all manner of magic: fantastical fairies, wish-granting genies, or even a certain boy wizard.

I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which are in fact fantasy. You have sticks that fly, but they're practical broomsticks, with a bloody great strap that you can hold on to so you don't fall off. And you try not to use them too often.

I was always interested in enchantment and magicians and still am.

I don't particularly have any magical ambitions, but then, I never did. I just enjoyed the game.

Magic has been something I've been really good at since I was really young. The ability has always come easy to me, I'm not sure why.

I used to have hair so long, my nickname was Pocahontas.

The Wizard of Ooze

Who wouldn't want to be wizard, at least for a day, as long as you didn't have the dilemmas and the situations that Merlin was thrown into. I'd be happy if you could actually use the powers to have a bit of fun and do something good for the world and maybe for yourself, whereas Merlin's kind of limited in that he has to look after Arthur.

I had heard stories about witches flying on a broom as a kid and I would always think, wow, they had their own private jet.

I've always been so attracted to magic.