Quotes About Illusionist

Un uomo solitario è un illusionista.

We don't want obvious exploitation. We want smoke-and-mirrors exploitation.

Image is sorcery.

The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.

I let him run on, this papier-mache Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe.

I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe.

Because, you see, if the man were an invention—a fabrication—how much easier to make him disappear!

There is no magic, only tricks.

The more you look, the less you see.

You know, I'm not very good at magic - I can only do half of a trick. Yes - I'm a member of the Magic Semi-circle.

Once people enjoy what I do, I don't mind if they call me a magician or an illusionist or a hypnotist, entertainer, comedian, whatever people want to call me. I'm comfortable with all of the above, so I don't really mind at all what people want to call me.

Leo Koretz, the Bernie Madoff of the Roaring Twenties, operated his swindle for far longer and with more panache than his contemporary, Charles Ponzi. He was a better actor, a more adept liar, a shrewder salesman. He kept his scam alive – and his investors none the wiser – for almost two decades …. In terms of the scale of their frauds, staying power and sheer audacity, Leo Koretz and Bernie Madoff stand apart in the pantheon of pyramid-building swindlers.

Movies are like magic tricks.

The Great and Terrible Humbug

It's the old shell game.

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

Derren Victor Brown

Magic is magic except to the magician.

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.

Magic, historically, has been a man doing tricks with no wider story behind it.

I'm a British psychological illusionist, which is a term I made up, but I do these kind of mind-reading and psychological experiments. There's nothing magical about it at all.

You didn't want to know, so it was easy for her to fool you. She works left-handed.

There's only a fellow sawing a woman in half this week.' 'Keep a half for me.

The mind fools the eye. The eye makes us fools.