Carbonaro Quotes

#1. Magic is really performing special effects live. - Author: Michael Carbonaro

#2. I went to NYU completely with the idea I wanted to be the next David Copperfield. - Author: Michael Carbonaro

#3. He had had a severe shock some weeks earlier, when, having narrowly failed to capture a large grey-brown hare for his dinner, it had stopped at the edge of the forest, looked at him with disdain, and said, 'Well, I hope you're proud of yourself, that's all,' and had scampered off into the long grass - Author: Neil Gaiman

#4. I've always performed magic as a kid. - Author: Michael Carbonaro

#5. There's magic all around us: Our smartphones are magical, 3-D printers are magical. So I feel that as a magician, if I can pull off something that seems real and convincing enough that I can explain why it's happening and have people believe it, it really is fascinating. And funny. - Author: Michael Carbonaro

#6. 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. - Author: Michael Carbonaro

#7. I found that if I stack the moments correctly, people will believe in the most outrageous things. - Author: Michael Carbonaro

#8. I'm doing everything I can to take the magician out of the equation of magic. - Author: Michael Carbonaro

#9. I might be 'Candid Camera's number one fan. - Author: Michael Carbonaro

#10. The goal is to really blur the line. Can you perform a magic trick in a way that someone doesn't think it's a magic trick but is something amazing they haven't seen before? Then they have to wrestle with reality. - Author: Michael Carbonaro

#11. I was certain when I was about 10 years old that I was going to be a special effects artist or a make-up man. I loved that stuff and pursued it for quite some time, actually. - Author: Michael Carbonaro

#12. I am a hopeless mamma's boy. - Author: Michael Carbonaro

#13. I'll order anything that has the word 'fig' or 'crusted' in the menu description. - Author: Michael Carbonaro

#14. My goal was becoming the next David Copperfield. I learned how to be a performer by emulating him as a kid - his formula of just talking to people onstage, being free to improvise, being charming and witty with a crowd, together with great, beautiful magic. - Author: Michael Carbonaro

#15. Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true. - Author: Thomas Merton

#16. Ooh! Jesus Christ had dreads, so shake 'em.
I ain't got none, but I'm planning on growing some.
Imagine all the Hebrews going dumb ...
Dancing on top of chariots and turning tight ones. - Author: E-40

#17. I love acting on television and look forward to more roles, for sure. And I also love and need to perform live shows. - Author: Michael Carbonaro

#18. Books are humanity in print. - Author: Barbara W. Tuchman

#19. I like the au naturel thing you have going on. Girls don't come over here like that."
"I was coerced into coming here. It didn't occur to me to impress you," I said, aggravated that my plan had failed. - Author: Jamie McGuire

#20. I don't want to be 'the magician'; I want to be an innocent bystander along with the magical moment. - Author: Michael Carbonaro

#21. Magic is like special effects live, and I love to perform, so it sounded like doing magic tricks were a good way to entertain people. - Author: Michael Carbonaro

#22. Alan Funt was the first hidden-camera magician. It was the playful nature of the way he worked that really inspired me. A lot of prank shows and hidden-camera shows can be a little mean-spirited. Funt was never like that. - Author: Michael Carbonaro

#23. At first, all is black and white.
Black on white.
That's where I'm walking, through pages.
These pages.
Sometimes it gets so that I have one foot in the pages and the words, and the other in what they speak of. - Author: Markus Zusak

#24. I have heard I look like the guy from 'The Carbonaro Effect.' - Author: Michael Carbonaro

#25. My goal is to get people to really believe that the impossible is real, and not that I'm responsible for it. I want them to believe that they're having the most unusual, magical and bizarre days of their lives. - Author: Michael Carbonaro

#26. Growing up, I loved magic, I loved acting, I loved comedy. I really didn't know what direction I was going. I was trying a whole bunch of stuff. - Author: Michael Carbonaro

#27. David Blaine, I think, was the first TV magician to really turn the camera around and make it about the spectator's experience. That's really what magic is all about. - Author: Michael Carbonaro

#28. People are really willing to believe in impossible things, which is really beautiful. - Author: Michael Carbonaro

#29. I say 'incantation' a lot, when what I really mean 'incarnation.' It's a programmed mistake. - Author: Michael Carbonaro