Actors Quote by Milbourne Christopher

The magic of theatre is how much can you stimulate the mind of the audience, not how many illusions you can create.

— Naseeruddin Shah

Magic in plays and musicals, I think, is more often created because of the work of an incredible company rather than a single component.

— Michael Arden

Actors are insanely competitive and they hold back on each other. They are like magicians and none of them want to show their tricks.

— David Ayer

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

— Jenna Elfman

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real.

— Laurence Olivier

Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.

— Ben Kingsley

Like every art form, there are jealousies and angers and competitiveness in magic. But there's camaraderie among magicians, whether you perform it for a…

— Ricky Jay

My idea of magic doesn't have much to do with stage tricks and illusions. The whole world abounds in magic.

— Michael Jackson

There is a lot of comedy in magic, and magic going wrong, and also it is a dramatic subject.

— J. K. Rowling

Actors and magicians are both performers, and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.

— Steve Carell

I think acting is magic. If I tell you all about myself it will spoil it

— Patrick Troughton

I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in…

— Zoe Kazan