I don't expect that the million will ever be won, simply because there is no confirming evidence for any paranormal claims to date.
Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.
If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?
When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write.
I was always interested in enchantment and magicians and still am.
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
When I was playing Gandalf, I didn't think, 'Oh my dear, I'm playing a 7,000 year old wizard,' because I've never met one, and I don't know what they're like.
I ain't got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. It's kind of silly.
As we Wizards go, I'm pretty harmless.
Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless.
Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want.
To be a druid is to embrace death, dance with it a while, and finally fall prey to it. That is why we'll never rule this world. We have the power to bend all men to our whim, but are forever pushing ourselves further,trying to fly higher...and falling
People saw more magic in me than I saw.
My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they’re dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set.
I was always fascinated by fairy stories, fantasy, you know, demons, necromancers, gods and goddesses, everything that is out of our kin and out of our everyday world. I was always interested in enchantment and magicians and still am.
I didn’t care…about heroes who could read minds or walk through walls or do magic. The heroes I liked had courage and knew more real stuff than those who opposed them.
Merlin is really at the forefront, in that regard. We get a glimpse into the dark, Machiavellian corridors of power. I like the fact that, although he has powers, his powers are almost in his political guile as much as what he relies on, in darker forces.
I do think we've looked at this film [Doctor Strange] not with any direct genre comparison but as a play on the supernatural genre. Certainly more so than we've done in the past, which is what makes his journey from person that doesn't wear a cape to person who does wear a cape - cloak, much more unique than we've seen in the past.
On my fortieth birthday, rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a midlife crisis I decided it might be more interesting to actually terrify them by going completely mad and declaring myself to be a magician.
I think [Doctor Strange] it is - it does tap into a supernatural type of genre that is not horror.
Psychic, illusionist... I'm just doing the things that I find interesting and worthwhile.
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards because a refusal often offends, I read somewhere.
There is magic, but you have to be the magician. You have to make the magic happen.
The only nickname I've ever had is Merlin, like the magician. I don't know why.
"I warn you," the boy went on. "I am a magician of great power. I control many terrifying entities. This being you see before you" - here I rolled my shoulders back and puffed my chest up menacingly - "is but the meanest and least impressive of my slaves." Here I slumped my shoulders and stuck my stomach out.
