Top 316 Magician Quotes & Sayings

I love a quick little magician gag.

When I'm traveling a lot the flight attendants will ask what I do and if I say I'm a magician then I have to do a trick. But if it's a red eye flight and I haven't slept at all, I'll say I'm a comedian. And then they say, "Do a joke." But if you're a magician you should be able to do a trick anywhere, any time of day. And if it's not the best situation to showcase what I do then I'll offer them tickets to my show that night. Trying to do a magic trick right outside of an airplane lavatory isn't the best viewing conditions.

But magic, like everything else, follows certain natural laws. Magic needs energy wherever it can find it. If no other source of energy is available, it will take the life force of the magician who created it. That is why every use of magic weakens the magician.

I am not a magician of football.

The other thing about the Nights is that it is quite racist. One parentheses is that I think this is one of the negative things that appeal to people, that The Arabian Nights could be used as a disguise for racism. It suited the West. You could smuggle racism into children's literature, you see. The African magician in the story of Aladdin, he's labeled explicitly as the "African Magician." He's not a character but a stereotype, and a lot of this got into nursery literature in this Oriental disguise.

Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never would.

perhaps the only magician we have is the artist.

A magician is only an actor - an actor pretending to be a magician.

I'm a project manager, not a magician. Magicians have way cooler hats.

Love is the magician of the universe. It creates everything out of nothing.

All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.

When you're learning how to do magic, the first rule is 'never reveal a secret.' In a way, by telling someone I'm a magician, it kind of gives away the best secret of all... How interesting to take the magician out of the equation of a magic show.

I beg you I no magician. I can't just wave a magic wand.

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.

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

Every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts. The first part is called the Pledge. The magician shows you something ordinary. The second act is called the Turn. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it into something extraordinary. But you wouldn't clap yet, because making something disappear isn't enough. You have to bring it back.

Dave Filoni is a bit of a magician. Nothing is by accident.

Home is a word stronger than a magician ever spoke.

Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off.

A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it. Or what did you think that stuff in your chest was? A magician is strong because he hurts more than others. His wound is his strength.

Hearing is believing...a magician with the piano.

There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.

A Magician is not a Magician because he knows tricks, but because he knows Magic - the principles, the fundamentals.

..The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English.

The greatness and efficacy of a magician is measured by his refusal to use magic. The true magician, the greatest, is the poorest and most unfortunate of all mortals. Because between his magic and his person forgetfulness takes shape, in the form of the world.

I have no doubt there are magician psychopaths, and magician serial killers. I doubt Brakebills admissions is very good at screening for those.

Cameron Rogers writes like a magician.

All magic is about transformation... the performance magician is telling you that you are the magician in your own life. You are the agent of transformation, your own transformation.

It's very exciting to take magic into a new direction, whereas a lot of times magic comes from a place of sort of ego, like, 'Look what I can do that you can't do.' It kind of comes across that way a lot, and you're always trying to challenge the magician; you're always trying to figure out how the magician is doing it.

The only nickname I've ever had is Merlin, like the magician. I don't know why.

When you see a movie, it's like you're attending a show of magic in which the magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat. You don't know how he did it, but a part of you is fascinated, or hypnotized, by what happened, another part of your brain says, "Oh, I want to do the same thing! I want to be that wielder of that magic. I want to be that magician on stage, and do the same thing to other people."

I'm a magician, not a singer.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

There is no magician like love.

Do not be a magician - be magic!

Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.

Hey, I fool the camera. I'm a liar, a magician.

I object to that remark very strongly! - The Magician's Nephew

Anyone without a sense of humor is too pretentious to be a good magician.

I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

Ever helped a Magician before? No? Well, you're not helping one now, either!

A magician is strong because he feels the pain between what the world is and what he would make of it.

The Magician's Land is a triumphant climax to the best fantasy trilogy of the decade.

Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.

Before one can become a magician he must learn to control his own mind; for mind is the substance with which the magician acts, and the power to control it is the beginning of magic.

Drummond is many things, and one of those things is a magician. (...) Art is magic, and so is pop. Bill Drummond is a cultural magician, and 45 is his logbook. Shelve alongside Brian Eno's A Year With Swollen Appendices. Hail Discordia !

God is a scientist, not a magician.

I'm doing everything I can to take the magician out of the equation of magic.

God is not a demiurge [demigod] or a magician, but the Creator who gives being to all entities.

When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so. God is not a demiurge [demigod] or a magician, but the Creator who gives being to all entities. Evolution in nature is not opposed to the notion of Creation, because evolution presupposes the creation of beings that evolve.

As a magician or anyone fascinated by magic, the Houdini story is a really impressive one.

The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.

People have expectations of me but I'm not a magician.

Drew was a director, and I'm a magician.

A magician pulls a rabbit from a hat, and actors pull truth from fiction.

A magician is an actor playing the part of a magician.

To obfuscate the reconstruction of the effect - when a magician is fooled by another magician doing magic. In my career that's not been the major passion, but it's been the passion of a number of my mentors. The crowning achievement for them would be to create magic good enough to fool other magicians.

The expert magician seeks to deceive the mind, rather than the eye.

Indian street magic tends to be very gory, blood and guts. One trick is for a magician to take a knife and appear to cut his kid's head almost off. The magician then says to the crowd, 'Well I can continue to cut off my son's head or you can all give me some money.' Then he wanders around and takes 10 rupees from everyone and restores his son.

Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.