Quotes by David Blaine

About David Blaine:

David Blaine is an American magician, illusionist and endurance artist. He is best known for his high-profile feats of endurance, and has made his name as a performer of street and close-up magic. He has performed all over the world and has set and broken several world records.
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I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to me. It was a gypsy tarot deck that I used to carry everywhere.

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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.

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

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

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I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.

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

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Whether you're shuffling a deck of cards or holding your breath, magic is pretty simple: It comes down to training, practice, and experimentation, followed up by ridiculous pursuit and relentless perseverance.

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When I was about 19, I shot a tape of me doing magic just to people on the streets, and I would edit together all the reactions and I kept pushing this idea, and then ABC came on board and made my first show.

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I think that when Evel Knievel crashed over the fountain at Caesar's, it kind of gave you a credibility and then anticipation for everything he did.

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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.

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As a kid, I always was obsessed with Houdini.

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I do a lot of research on what people have done in the past.

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I've always liked artists like Chris Burden, who would take performances, put them in galleries, and then do things that were on the edge.

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People haven't even begun to tap into the potential of what the mind is possible of doing. We only use a certain percentage of our brains.

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I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.

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

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

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Author Bio

  • NameDavid Blaine
  • DescriptionAmerican illusionist and endurance artist
  • AliasesDavid Blaine White
  • BornApril 4, 1973
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionEndurance Art; Street Artist; Magician; Autobiographer