If you do something that you're proud of, that someone else understands, that is a thing of beauty that wasn't there before - you can't beat that.
Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.
To most people who have a point of view, merely being on TV is an intrinsic good.
I always assumed I'd spend my life happily performing in artsy-fartsy little theaters.
In real life, the most important decision you ever make is, where does reality leave off and make-believe begin? If you make a mistake about that, you're dead. You know, you're out on the street corner. You think there's no bus coming. You step out, ...
Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.
People come up to me on the street and make some little joke - like they'll say, 'Excuse me, sir, what time is it?' And I'll say, you know, '5:15,' and they'll say, 'Hey! Made you talk!' And that's merely a way of saying, 'I know your work and I like...
Every time you perform a magic trick, you're engaging in experimental psychology. If the audience asks, 'How the hell did he do that?' then the experiment was successful.
Indian street magic tends to be very gory, blood and guts. One trick is for a magician to take a knife and appear to cut his kid's head almost off. The magician then says to the crowd, 'Well I can continue to cut off my son's head or you can all give...
Given my absolute druthers, I would certainly like to see that every part of my body is used for spare parts for science.
I'm more apt to cry at something beautiful than at something sad.
