Growing up, I loved magic, I loved acting, I loved comedy. I really didn’t know what direction I was going. I was trying a whole bunch of stuff. – Michael Carbonaro
Being open to what’s happening in front of you is the most important thing about being a director. To allow the magic to exist and to be light enough on your feet to harness it as it’s happening. That’s what makes cinema interesting. – David MacKenzie
Although it may seem callous to say so, millions of Americans are lucky that Magic Johnson was infected with H.I.V. There is no way of calculating how many lives he has saved. No advertising agency could have invented a better, or more effective, role model. – Michael Specter
It’s not magic! It’s physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It’s like a spinning top. – Deborah Bull
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. – Norman Vincent Peale
Paul McCartney and The Beatles in general are my idols. And I love Sting. I got to meet Sting. That was really cool. Dustin Hoffman is my favorite actor. Also, I think of Magic Johnson as an idol. – Nat Wolff
Ten years ago, TV cookery shows were about a man or a woman following recipes. Now, it’s all about journeys and campaigns and less about the actual chopping and dicing. That’s what I’d like to do with magic. – Drummond Money-Coutts
I hope people remember me as a guy who brought magic to the people. You know, pushed the boundaries of wonder. – David Blaine
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. – Daniel Burnham
I was very, very little – it was the first time I ever cooked on my own, with my mother’s supervision – and I made scrambled eggs. I felt so accomplished, like magic! – Gail Simmons
What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he’s become a different person. – Edith Head
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. – Philippe Petit
I liked the idea of having actual magic performed as stage magic, so you could assume that it was just a trick, that something is all smoke and mirrors, but there’s that, like, feeling at the back of your mind: What if it’s not? – Erin Morgenstern
I know ‘Vikings’ isn’t really based in magic, but it goes back to Old World spirituality and different religions, and a lot of voodoo. – Madchen Amick
Magic, historically, has been a man doing tricks with no wider story behind it. – Drummond Money-Coutts
I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction like smoke. – Nnedi Okorafor
They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic. – Dennis Eckersley
I always liked the magic of poetry but now I’m just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they’ve used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there. – David Knopfler
Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It’s neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic. – Francesca Lia Block
‘Harry Potter’ achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry around, read and enjoy a children’s book. – Maureen Johnson
Magic’s an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea. – David Blaine
I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts – magic, juggling, and the high wire. – Philippe Petit
