I came to magic absolutely hating magic on a very, very deep level.
I never wanted to be a magician. I never wanted to be a comedian. I never wanted to be onstage.
Magic is the Special Olympics of entertainment.
If you want to talk about magic, the stuff that blows me away is the stuff that's done close up.
All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.
I intend to do the Penn & Teller show until they pry my cheesy magic wand from my cold dead fingers.
For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights.
One thing you learn doing magic tricks for a living is how close every performance of every magic trick is to disaster. There are no robust magic tricks. They're all hanging from a thread - sometimes literally.
The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again.
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.
In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed.
Modern American magic, late 20th century magic, is tremendously disrespectful of the audience.
And we realized it was time to do a show underwater. Magic needs a good head-soaking.