Card Tricks Quotes

I don't have the attention span to practice sleight of hand.

Growing up, yeah, I had a magic kit with learn tricks and learn card tricks, but I was never... I used to watch whatever magic special was on as a kid, but then, it's not that I lost interest, but to be a magician, you really, it's really hard work. Learning lines is hard enough; learning sleight of hand, that's real practice.

I'm a magician, like David Blaine. I could never fall.

All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.

A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.

If people are fans of 'Mindfreak,' they are going to be so excited with 'Believe.' They are actually going to see those illusions that people think can only happen with trick photography.

I always wanted to do magic tricks - I feel like that could be the the next wave.

My dad was a big card player.

It's my object to be stared at like a dog that's just been shown a card trick.

One of the world's most popular entertainments is a deck of cards, which contains thirteen each of four suits, highlighted by kings, queens and jacks, who are possibly the queen's younger, more attractive boyfriends.

I never quite know how to describe what I do. I normally just say, 'Oh, I'm a magician', which probably puts fairly naff ideas in people's minds but is pleasantly conversation-stopping.

When I was six years old, I fell in love with magic. For Christmas, I got a magic box and a very old book on card manipulation. Somehow, I was more interested in pure manipulation than in all the silly little tricks in the box.

Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books.

It's okay," he informs me. "Your grandfather is teaching me how to play poker." If I know Grandad, that means what he'll really be teaching Sam is how to cheat.

"Do you like card tricks?" "No, I hate card tricks," I answered. "Well, I'll just show you this one." He showed me three.

For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights.

I had a magic kit. I never really followed through on it, but I had my phase of wanting to do it, sure.

I've had dreams about tricks.

I'm not a great card player. Keeping my cards close has always been a challenge for me.

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.

My goal was becoming the next David Copperfield. I learned how to be a performer by emulating him as a kid - his formula of just talking to people onstage, being free to improvise, being charming and witty with a crowd, together with great, beautiful magic.

I'm not a big fan of doing it because I get really frustrated because I can't do any of the tricks, but I love to watch magic.

You know, I'm not very good at magic - I can only do half of a trick. Yes - I'm a member of the Magic Semi-circle.

There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.

Nobody who is a Penn & Teller fan thinks of us first and foremost as magicians, but as a comedy team.