Magician Quotes
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.
In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.
If you are a happy person, don't spend your time trying to make an unhappy person happy. Near as I can tell, you have to be a magician to pull it off.
One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror.
One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane.
At the moment we've only got 16 first-team players and my initials stand for Mick McCarthy, not Merlin the Magician (the new Wolves manager gets the excuses in early!)
If I wrote a musical it wouldn't be about me. Although I do some magic, so it would probably be about a magician who appeared and re-appeared all over the place.
Some of the best ideas I've gotten for my act have come from comedians and not magicians.
My parents are responsible for the two things I like doing most - driving and magic tricks. They bought me my first go-kart and a magician's kit.
When you work with David Lynch, you never know where he's going next and that's exciting. He's like a magician pulling out new tricks.
The core practice of magic is: The execution of a willed intent to create change in the material world, which either defies, hastens or purifies the consequences of natural cause and effect.
The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.
Magick comes in many forms, and there are many covert master magicians who are so covert that they don't even know they are magicians.
We need a little more compassion, and if we cannot have it, then no politician or even a magician can save the planet.
Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed.
When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing a magic show and I was the volunteer from the audience.
I have no doubt there are magician psychopaths, and magician serial killers. I doubt Brakebills admissions is very good at screening for those.
A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.
A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.
I never wanted to be a magician. I never wanted to be a comedian. I never wanted to be onstage.
She said, "I will go no farther." "There is no choice. We can only go on." The magician said again. "We can only go on.
The moon was gone, but to the magician's eyes the unicorn was the moon, cold and white and very old, lighting his way to safety, or to madness.
I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy.
Well, I suppose one ought not to employ a magician and then complain that he does not behave like other people.
Not our Logical, Mensurative faculty, but our Imaginative one is King over us; I might say, Priest and Prophet to lead us heavenward; or Magician and Wizard to lead us hellward.
It was reported that the New York Knicks have won all 12 of the home games attended by magician David Blaine. A spokesman for the Knicks said, 'if this is what it takes to win, it's not worth it.'
An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.
The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day of work. Just as a magician takes towers and rabbits out of his hat, he drew love from his small body.
The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws.
I'm a magician. I've learned to do some really cool tricks like levitating myself and melting forks.
A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee.
A magician is strong because he feels the pain between what the world is and what he would make of it.
Back in Khufu's day I knew a magician who parted the Nile just so he could climb to the bottom and retrieve a girl's necklace. Then there was that Israelite fellow, Mickey." "Moses?" "Yeah, him.
You know, any sane magician would never reveal his method of deception. And I don't think that a sensible musician would either.
I have not drawn a very rosy picture of the magician. I did not intend to do so. To the novice entering the life and promising himself ease, indolence, and wealth, I should say, Don't!
And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book.
I discovered that magic tricks got me more attention from the girls in my class when I was nine - so a magician was born!
As a magician, you must think about chaos and order. Those are the two forces that control the universe.
What’s the point of being a magician if you can’t wave your wand and make the people you care about feel better?
