Magician Quotes · Page 7

“Passmore used his personality the way a magician used smoke. It was all for the diversion.”

— David B. Dacosta

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

— Ouida

A fundamental understanding of the human psyche is the essential key to successful magic.

— Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin

I'm like a magician, cause if a girl tells me she's pregnant, I'll make my own ass disappear.

— Nikhil Saluja

The world is a magician greater than Harut and Marut, and you should avoid it

— Muhammad

For jokes as well as justice come in with speech. - Aslan, The Magician's Nephew

— Anonymous

A Magician is not a Magician because he knows tricks, but because he knows Magic - the principles, the fundamentals.

— Harlan Tarbell

When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!

— Kailash Kher

Magic is the only profession where it's easy to lie about your talent. If you do a trick and you can learn…

— David Copperfield

I interviewed Michael Caine the other day for a film about him being a magician and we did it in - and…

— Miquita Oliver

I have no doubt there are magician psychopaths, and magician serial killers. I doubt Brakebills admissions is very good at screening for…

— Lev Grossman

I never quite know how to describe what I do. I normally just say, 'Oh, I'm a magician', which probably puts fairly…

— Derren Brown

Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.…

— Tennessee Williams

'The Magician's Apprentice' was about someone from the low end of society manifesting magical power and how that completely messes up the…

— Trudi Canavan

“General belief is “There is no real magic, only tricks” but a great magician compel people not to trust that belief and…

— Amit Kalantri

Once people enjoy what I do, I don't mind if they call me a magician or an illusionist or a hypnotist, entertainer,…

— Keith Barry

“An illusion has three stages. "First there is the setup, in which the nature of what might be attempted at is hinted…

— Christopher Priest

Against all the opposition in the world, I make this statement - that once I knew a magician. I was a witness…

— Charles Fort

Dappled sunlight and looked at the silver vapor swirling inside. "Mist gathered at first light on the first day of the new…

— Mary Pope Osborne

I had the chance to play with a ghost of the museum. The function and the institution are gone - it's closed…

— Pierre Huyghe

To its devotees the bowtie suggests iconoclasm of an Old World sort, a fusty adherence to a contrarian point of view. The…

— Warren St. John

I learned a lot that night. For example, that part of being the magician's assistant means coming face-to-face with illusion. That invisibility…

— Jodi Picoult

This world is bullshit. And just because I appear in music video wherein I am in my underwear, and make young women…

— Janeane Garofalo

That did it. I'd gone through a lot in the past few days. Everyone I met seemed to want a piece of…

— Jonathan Stroud

“First rate magician perform first rate magic effects, second rate magician performs third rate magic effects.”

— Amit Kalantri

Most magicians are nothing more than laymen with rabbits on their business cards

— Darwin Ortiz

“Magicians and Mentalist predict the future because they create it.”

— Amit Kalantri

I'm fascinated by the similarities and differences between comedians and magicians.

— David Copperfield

“As a magician you will miss the hundred percent of the applause if you don't perform.”

— Amit Kalantri

An audience is perhaps unnecessary to the soul-searching mystic, but it is vital to the magician, the maker of prodigies.

— Domenico Gnoli

Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist? Vladimir: Yes, yes, we're magicians.

— Samuel Beckett

I never wanted to be a magician. I never wanted to be a comedian. I never wanted to be onstage.

— Penn Jillette

What’s the point of being a magician if you can’t wave your wand and make the people you care about feel better?

— Rick Riordan

Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but Im more interested in telling a story.

— Marco Tempest

I've never thought of myself as a great beauty -- just a great magician.

— Sharon Stone

There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.

— Charles Fort

I'm not a magician. I'am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with.

— Michael Scott

A magician pulls a rabbit from a hat, and actors pull truth from fiction.

— Mia Goth

I have a policy of not saying anything negative about anything another magician does.

— Doug Henning

Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove.

— Edith Piaf