Magic Quotes

I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That's the magic of it to me.

Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks.

Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

You can't magic yourself back 10 years.

At Microsoft, the magic of software is used to take on very interesting challenges.

I really don't believe in magic.

Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is.

If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.

I'm not interested in corporate magic or fame.

In America, magic has never been an important part of peoples' lives.

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.

Music's the one thing I try not to analyze. I don't want to destroy the magic that has always been there for me.

The magic of creation has always fascinated me.

Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.

The Internet has always been, and always will be, a magic box.

You know, magic markets don't appear all the time, so you take advantage of them.

My attraction has never been to computers per se, but to the fact that they offer a highly leveraged way to invent magic.

The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.

But the whole idea of the transformation... mystery, transformation, and manipulations - those were the things that Marcel was a magician at. That's his magic.

I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.

Magic in cinema is a bit like ventriloquism on the radio.

OK, magic boy, let's see who you really are.

I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.

I consider myself a showman, and I love magic, and I love art, and I love performance, and they're all separate.

The magic is in the man, not the 100 miles.

Art is a sense of magic.

So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team.

Movies are like magic tricks.

Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear.

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.

I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable.

For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic.

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.

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.

Dinner is where the magic happens in the kitchen.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

From the beginning of time, we've told stories, Shamans and Medicine People, and not to be pompous about it, but I feel like that is the lineage I take down and where I come from. There is magic to storytelling.

Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.

Magic is my paint.

Magic really helped me.

You have to learn certain skills to present magic.

It's really hard to think of one kind of magic as a favorite. I've been really fortunate in that I've been able to perform such a diverse range of things.

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.

I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.

I have always been interested in pushing magic forward.

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

I did magic at children's parties when I was a kid.

I love the magic of the studio.

L.A.'s magic has let me see every level of the dream.

The magic's back and we're in a time tunnel, feeling like when we were in our 20s back in the 1970s.

I really didn't know how people were going to react to 'Magic Mike' because there hasn't been a movie like it.

There's so much that I want to do. I feel like I'm the Magic Johnson of rap. You know, Magic was great on the basketball court, but he's bigger as a businessman.

I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic.

Digital media has destroyed much of the magic and mystery of the medium.

You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.

That creates the magic, and that's the wonderment of the musical process and how precious that is.

We're not going to find a magic cure for cancer. We've got to prevent it.

Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

After being in Harry Potter, I believe a bit more in magic than I did before.

I'd like to levitate.

I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

You don't have to have magic unicorn powers. You work at it, and you get better. It's like anything: You sit there and do it every day, and eventually you get good at it.

For me, the magic of Hawaii comes from the stillness, the sea, the stars.

If I wrote a musical it wouldn't be about me. Although I do some magic, so it would probably be about a magician who appeared and re-appeared all over the place.

The show is being changed right now, by the way. Jeff Burke is doing it for the Magic Kingdom. And I think it will be better, with new birds, master of ceremonies, etc.

I grew up in the '80s in L.A., so Ice Cube and Magic Johnson are my heroes.

Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.

Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.

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.

Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.