Jimi Hendrix Quotes

The real secret of magic lies in the performance.

I consider myself a showman, and I love magic, and I love art, and I love performance, and they're all separate.

As an actor, I feel one should use his look to trick people.

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.

Magic has both feet planted in cheap vaudeville and childish posturing; in dishonesty and therefore not in art.

Every time I perform, I always try to have that 'wow' factor.

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.

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

In the theatre, we're all charlatans and liars and scavengers and fly-by-nights.

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.

Magic is the Special Olympics of entertainment.

I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't.

Generally, magicians don't know what to say, so they say stupid and redundant crap like, 'Here I am holding a red ball.'

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

Magic is all about directing attention. If I didn't want you to look at my right hand then I don't look at it.

If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order.

You can't fool television viewers with dancing girls and flashing lights.

I think there's a huge amount of magic on television, which is slightly vapid: there's no real meaning or message behind it; it is simply a trick.

In my opinion, there's nothing new in the theatre, ever. Theatre-makers are thieves, in the honourable tradition of charlatans. They fake it very, very well indeed for the entertainment of everybody else.

I am a showman in the traditional sense, but modern, too. I like to use sets and lighting to create magic.

In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.

Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.

Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.

Magic is an art form where you lie and tell people you are lying.

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.