Quotes from Teller

If you do something that you're proud of, that someone else understands, that is a thing of beauty that wasn't there before - you can't beat that.

When a magician lets you notice something on your own, his lie becomes impenetrable.

Neuroscientists are novices at deception.

Onstage, I find absolutely nothing but exhilaration in not talking.

In real life, the most important decision you ever make is, where does reality leave off and make-believe begin? If you make a mistake about that, you're dead. You know, you're out on the street corner. You think there's no bus coming. You step out, you're dead.

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.

If there isn't at least the threat of violence in art, it tends to be kind of tiresome.

If you read Shakespeare's stage directions, all the gore and violence is right in there.

I'm a lazy sod.