Escapology 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.

Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.

I was damn lucky to choose this profession. I had no idea when I started out that I was really an illusionist and a magician.

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

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 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.

I went to NYU completely with the idea I wanted to be the next David Copperfield.

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.

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.

David Blaine, I think, was the first TV magician to really turn the camera around and make it about the spectator's experience. That's really what magic is all about.

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

Whenever two guys got together, you asked, 'What body part would you like to work?' In my case, it was the arm. Most guys wanted to feed me for that arm drag. We always believed in storytelling, so if I had the arm, the heel would get away for a moment - or heel his way away - and then I would get back to it.

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

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

Because I have been a magician for many years, people have often asked me whether I ever have sawn a woman in half. I reply, Oh, yes I've sawn over seventy women in half in my lifetime, and I'm learning the second half of the trick now.

Ever since I was a kid and watched magicians on stage, like David Copperfield or Siegfried and Roy, I instantly knew how they did everything. In my head, it just all worked.

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

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?'