Judd Apatow Quotes

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

What's the main thing that makes magic magic? The fact that no one believes that it's possible.

The real secret of magic is that there is no magic.

Scientists are the easiest to fool. ... They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors-they terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident.

There is no magic. There are only magicians.

Magic is the only profession where it's easy to lie about your talent. If you do a trick and you can learn it very quickly, you can fool somebody into thinking you're a great magician.

I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is.

It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.

Everything that I spent my entire life dedicated to, which is this art of mentalism, of magic... I don't see it and feel it and experience it like I first did when I was getting involved in this art. I try to look at it as a spectator but unless I get amnesia I still can't overlook that. I can appreciate the performance but I would love to be fooled.

Fairy's side note: Even people who don't believe in magic really do.

Magic is not inherently anything. It is what you sell it as.

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.

The rules of magic, my dear, are best not discusses. For once we understand the illusion, we no longer believe it.

If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.

When a magician lets you notice something on your own, his lie becomes impenetrable.

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

I believe in illusion - I don't believe in magic.

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

You don't question magic.

I don't really believe in the supernatural, as far as the negativity.

I believe in everything. I believe that everything is an illusion, and everything is there to be believed in.