Close-up Magic Quotes

All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.

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

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.

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.

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.

There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.

I'm a big Penn & Teller fan. But I myself was never very good; I was a teenage magician who performed at kids' parties. I can still perform a vanish, credibly, and I still, in special circumstances, will make a balloon animal.

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

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.

I was teaching magic at NYU when I was 16.

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

My interest was magic, believe it or not. I became an amateur magician and did something like 400 magic shows through my teen years.

My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.

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

I've been doing magic since I was five years old, and when I was trying to get acting gigs, I found I could make a good living at it. It's great to kind of shake the cobwebs off and get the feeling of a live audience again. I love close-up magic, the card stuff, the coin stuff, the really up-close David Blaine stuff.

If film making is magic, there's a difference between close up magic and David Copperfield. If you're doing close up magic, which independent filmmakers do, it is a very delicate craft, interpersonal relationship, and being able to enrapture a very small audience.

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

In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.

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.

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

As a close-up magician, I was using gambling cheating techniques.

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.