Quotes from David Blaine

We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe.

I remember finding a Houdini book at the library and seeing an image of him chained on the side of a building. He looked so intense and scary, and I couldn't get that image out of my head. That started building up my love of magic.

I think anybody can do any of these if they train. I don't recommend it, but anybody could do it if there was a need.

Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.

I'd like to bring magic back to the place it used to be 100 years ago.

My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest trick, which now that I look back on some things, she would love it, she would say that's amazing, or if I'd make the ugliest drawing, she would hang it up. She was amazing.

I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was fascinated. I guess that's how it started.

In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.

I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.

As a kid I used to hold my breath longer than anybody else, and then I heard stories about people accidently underwater for 45 minutes - how do you recover from that? It's not a miracle. Something allows us to survive.

If I asked you to stand in one spot for 35 hours or a certain length of time, you could do it.

I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.

As a kid, I always was obsessed with Houdini.

Besides prostitution, magic is one of the oldest art forms that exist.

We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe.

I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself... I can only hope for the best and expect the worse.

My only fear is the unknown.