Top 34 Best Houdini Quotes

#1. In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.

Kage Baker

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#2. The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.

Harry Houdini

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#3. I've always loved Houdini, not just because of what he did, but also because of what he stood for. He was a self-made man in a time when the idea of celebrity was still new, and he used his celebrity for good.

Michael Redhill

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#4. What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.

Harry Houdini

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#5. It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.

Harry Houdini

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#6. Rosabelle - answer - tell - pray, answer - look - tell - answer, answer - tell.

Harry Houdini

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#7. I think if you would have cut Houdini with a knife, blood wouldn't come out, PR would.

Criss Angel

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#8. Pickpockets either work alone or in pairs, or what is called a mob.

Harry Houdini

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#9. My chief task has been to conquer fear. The public sees only the thrill of the accomplished trick; they have no conception of the tortuous preliminary self-training that was necessary to conquer fear.

Harry Houdini

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#10. The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed.

Harry Houdini

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#11. The secret of showmanship consists not of what you really do, but what the mystery-loving public thinks you do.

Harry Houdini

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#12. Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini,

Paul Muldoon

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#13. Never try to fool children, they expect nothing, and therefore see everything ...

Harry Houdini

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#14. The pickpocket is usually very well dressed and of prepossessing appearance.

Harry Houdini

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#15. It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.

Boris Johnson

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#16. Kiernan leans forward. "I'm guessing that's because you can make it work, Mr. Houdini. Maybe that's how you manage . . ." He pauses when my kick lands on his shin, but finishes the sentence anyway. ". . . some of your more elaborate escapes.

Rysa Walker

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#17. Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.

Harry Houdini

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#18. I don't think you can say something is or isn't magic. That's what was cool about Houdini, because he was a magician who had a magic show, but he was also an escape artist, and they kind of, over time, blended together. They both kind of enhance each other, I think.

David Blaine

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#19. They seal the subway change-booth guy up inside this thing with bullet-proof glass, closed in on all sides, it's like some kind of Houdini torture tank of doom. How do you breathe in there? It looks like if you put your hand over the change slot, you could suffocate him in thirty seconds.

Jerry Seinfeld

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#20. I collect rare photographs ... I have two ... One of Houdini locking his keys in his car ... the other is a rare picture of Norman Rockwell beating up a child.

Steven Wright

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#21. I'm tired of fighting.

Harry Houdini

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#22. There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general.

James Randi

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#23. Almost the first thing you see after entering the Houdini exhibition at the Jewish Museum is a large-screen film of Harry Houdini hanging by his ankles upside-down from a tall building, high over a sea of men in fedoras, and thrashing his way out of a straitjacket.

Robert Gottlieb

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#24. One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness.

Criss Angel

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#25. In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally.

Harry Houdini

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#26. It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.

David Blaine

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#27. Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.

Harry Houdini

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#28. The greatest escape I ever made was when I left Appleton, Wisconsin.

Harry Houdini

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#29. They do tricks even I can't figure out.

Harry Houdini

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#30. Obama has figured out the best method to prepare the way for his verbal Houdini acts: Use political noise as the tune-up din before the aria. Perhaps his body temperature is so low, it sometimes takes him too long to break out the song.

Tina Brown

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#31. I am not an irretrievable skeptic. I am not hopelessly prejudiced. I am perfectly willing to believe, and my mind is wide open; but I have, as yet, to be convinced. I am perfectly willing, but the evidence must be sane and conclusive.

Harry Houdini

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#32. It is needless to say that women make the most patient as well as the most dangerous pickpockets.

Harry Houdini

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#33. Escapology has one thing going for it that probably made Harry Houdini such a superstar in his day and a legend in the present. Everyone wants to escape from something. Taxes, contracts, illness, work, the multitude of burdens that we chafe under are shadows from which we want to escape.

James Randi

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#34. To label Jason Randal a magician does a disservice. You'll think the laws of physics, nature, the universe itself have been suspended. He's as good as Houdini was at his best!

David Letterman

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