You can't please everyone and trying to do so is the kiss of death.

What you see is what you get.

It's so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn't have any money, and my only car was mom's Hyundai.

Magic speaks to the child in all of us. No matter how sophisticated we become, there's still a part of us who wants to believe in an alternative reality, where we can defy the laws of nature.

Reality is perspective. All you have to do is Believe.

Pain is a beautiful thing. When you feel pain, you know you're alive.

When you think like a child your imagination is free and anything is possible.

To me, it's never about the trick. I don't care about how something works. I care about how people feel when they watch it. You know, that - that connection - that emotional connection is true magic.

I am the Mindfreak, there's no Reality! Just this World of Illusion that keeps on haunting me.

I'm a workaholic. I work and work and work.

When the mind, body, and spirit work together, I believe anything is possible.

The ink was secret nectar, for Marin isn't married.

I am black. What are you going to do about it?

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest; and if you can do with a little, ask for a great deal. Because if you don't you won't get any.

Don't raise your expectations too high. It's the surest way of being disappointed.

The love of country is more powerful than reason itself.

I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think.

The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand alone.

I grew up around acting, but it was never thought of as a career.

The readiness is all.