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Magicians from the nineteenth century threw cards distances, but I think I'm the first one who made a thing about using them as weapons.

I'm a magician. I've learned to do some really cool tricks like levitating myself and melting forks.

When I was in college, being a magician was not the classiest thing to be. It was like being a folk singer before Bob Dylan.

Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but I'm more interested in telling a story.

My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she thought somebody had put a spell on me - this is the truth - so she made me drink some horrible terrifying potions, for year.

Indeed, most magicians catch the bug as kids. My first audience was my family in Long Island. My first 'assistant' was my mother, whom I levitated on a broom in our living room.

Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing a magic show and I was the volunteer from the audience.

I always really liked magicians. I'm not even sure why - except that they know things other people don't, and they live in untidy rooms full of strange objects.

Magicians have done controlled testing in human perception for thousands of years.