If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.
I'm so happy dancing while the grim reaper cuts, cuts, cuts, but he can't get me. I'm as clever as can be, and I'm very quick but don't forget; we've only got so many tricks. no one lives forever.
It wasn't just about doing tricks. It's about taking an audience to another place, a special place, so they can really suspend their disbelief. Its about amazing the audience as well as moving them.
I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.
A technique is a trick that works.
One of the tricks that you have to learn, with episodic TV, is you don't know how many years you're going to be blessed with.
Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks.
Rather than having small smart tricks to get by, focus on holding on and persevering.
The trick to having obedient, unquestioning children was to have death be the other option
A bank is a confidence trick. If you put up the right signs, the wizards of finance themselves will come in and ask you to take their money.
A fantastic actor in a scene that's just closed off will be good. But when working with a director who knows little tricks - correct music, slowly pushing in - that stunning performance will somehow become even better. I've always seen it as a symbiotic relationship.
Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.
It takes more than some mind games, a couple of parlor tricks, to get under my skin.
Reverse psychology is an awesome tool, I don't know if you guys know about it, but basically you can make someone think the opposite of what you believe, and that tricks them into doing something stupid. Works like a charm.
What tricks the mind is what the mind is glad to be tricked by.
The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.
How do you deal with meditating when you stop breathing? The trick is to meditate just a little higher and you won't even know that you're not breathing.
How much the more in judging of the human heart should we distrust all fashionable airs and graces, all tricks and smartness, learnt only to please the outward gaze
I'm a magician. I've learned to do some really cool tricks like levitating myself and melting forks.
There's always room for improvement, but the judges are looking for big airs and stylish tricks.