I am a street performer as much as I am a stage performer. Yes, I have a television show, but every trick, every 'Mindfreak' you see, I can do live.
I was alone with myself. And disgusting as I was it was better than being with somebody else, anybody else, all of them out there doing their pitiful little tricks and handsprings.
You don’t have to spend a lot of money to feel like a million. A good night’s sleep, a quiet walk by the river or a hug from a favorite person will do the trick.
I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.
Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.
The trick is, a market has to be nonexistent when you start. If the market is large early on, you will have too many competitors. You have to make it large.
One trick, known as the journey method or 'memory palace,' is to conjure up a familiar space in the mind's eye, and then populate it with images of whatever it is you want to remember.
Well I'm still working on The Incredibles. So I'm going to take a little time off. I've got a couple of tricks up my sleeve. I'm not ready to talk about them yet, but expect the unexpected.
Every time I went into the studio some engineer tried to impress me with how they're going to capture my sound with all kinds of tricks. But they limited the sound and never allowed me to play how I felt.
Well, to tell you truth, I have learned a long time ago that the trick when doing a debate, any kind of debate, is to just turn off the judgment switch in my head.
My face and skin trick is to moisturise well in the winter time, because the weather eats up your skin, and I never go to sleep with make up on. Someone told me it ages you ten years.
One day, I saw a magic show, and I was like, 'I have to learn how to do this!' Every time I went to Las Vegas, I had to get at least two or three tricks from the magic shops.
That became a big time in comic books because it's when people were starting to break out into independent stuff, the market was getting choked with speculators and everybody was trying to do their own trick covers.
The Joker: [to the mob after performing his "magic trick"] Oh, and by the way, the suit, it wasn't cheap. You oughta know, you bought it.
Stef: [Seeing a cannon ball rolling around a track] What the hell is that? Mikey: It's another one of Willy's tricks. Get out of the way!
[as the Endurance is about to enter the wormhole] Cooper: Any trick to this, Doyle? Doyle: No one knows. Cooper: Well, the others made it, right? Doyle: ...at least some of them. [Cooper glares at Doyle]
Jon Osterman: I'm disappointed in you, Adrian! Very disappointed! Re-assembling myself was the first trick I learned as Dr Manhattan!
Charlie Kaufman: How could you have somebody held prisoner in a basement and... and working at a police station at the same time? Donald Kaufman: [pause] Trick photography.
[Evan visits Kayleigh, who has now become a prostitute] Kayleigh: So, how's tricks? Sorry, occupational humor. Evan: I got it.
Kayleigh Miller: Where'd you learn those new tricks? Evan: What? It... it wasn't... weird... was it? Kayleigh Miller: Yeah, if you call multiple orgasms weird!
General belief is “There is no real magic, only tricks” but a great magician compel people not to trust that belief and make them believe, after all "There does exist a real magic".
