Apollo Robbins

When we think of misdirection, we think of something as looking off to the side when, actually, the things right in front…

— Apollo Robbins

Think about it this way - if you have five senses, and they're all feeding into one place, kind of like a…

— Apollo Robbins

We always think of misdirection as, 'Look over here while I do this over here!' And that's not what it is. You…

— Apollo Robbins

I can analyze how I do things, but the actual doing it - when the synapses just start firing - I can't…

— Apollo Robbins

I've taken a tenacious bulldog approach to learning new skills throughout my life.

— Apollo Robbins

Usually I'll tell someone, for example, like their watch. If they have a watch on, I might say, 'In three minutes, I'd…

— Apollo Robbins

Usually, when people watch magic, there are two levels: the people who walk away accepting that there are things they don't know,…

— Apollo Robbins

One time, I had a guy, when I was performing at Caesar's Palace, and during the course of the show, I offered…

— Apollo Robbins

I was at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, and I was performing at a show there. Jimmy Carter was going to be…

— Apollo Robbins

In the same way that a film director would use a film lens to blur out a certain item or use a…

— Apollo Robbins

When I became a teen, I ran into a friend at a magic shop who took me under his wing. I started…

— Apollo Robbins

At the zoo, people would gather around the railway to see the snakes being fed, and my brothers would walk around the…

— Apollo Robbins

When I was around 13 or 14, and I was in a private school, I had a Frisbee that had the name…

— Apollo Robbins

If you don't attend to something, you can't be aware of it. But ironically, you can attend to something without being aware…

— Apollo Robbins

The mechanisms inside me tick like a criminal. My mind works like theirs, and criminals can smell it when they're around me…

— Apollo Robbins

Too often, we take our construct of reality as an absolute, and what I'm trying to point out for most people is…

— Apollo Robbins

When I shake someone's hand, I apply the lightest pressure on their wrist with my index and middle fingers and lead them…

— Apollo Robbins

If you could control somebody's attention, what would you do with it?

— Apollo Robbins

There are two kinds of magic. If you think of it like martial arts, there's sparring, where you are doing it with…

— Apollo Robbins

I was doing all these hand exercises, trying to move things like other kids, catch things like other kids, and change my…

— Apollo Robbins

I'm a jazz performer - I have to improvise with what I'm given.

— Apollo Robbins

Many times, illusions or magic sets are designed as an exposition for the audience to watch, but the the style I do…

— Apollo Robbins

I wouldn't be able to do the things I do if I hadn't been around and seen the stuff my brothers did.

— Apollo Robbins

If I need to steal from a difficult spot, I like to use a 'bottom-up' attention strategy to direct the focus.

— Apollo Robbins

Our absolutes should always be hypothesis. They should never be confirmed as fact because everything that we construct through our perceptions, through…

— Apollo Robbins