When I did my first few television specials, my illusions were so advanced that it took a couple of years before the other illusionists could even figure out what I was doing, let alone try to imitate me.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.
I am an illusionist. That's why I create art.
While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me.
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
Like when you go to a magic show and you know how they do the illusions. That's how I am when I watch any movies where they have people flying through the air.
A lot of things you just stumble into: relationships or ways of putting characters opposite one another that really worked. So then it's not always so much about imitating other people, but imitating yourself, at least in your thinking.
I'm a character actor and I get lost in these characters, so I think it's only recently that people have begun to connect dots and go, 'Oh, that's the same person that did this, this, this, this and this!' which I take as a compliment. One time somebody called me an illusionist, and that was the nicest thing anyone has ever said.
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.