Top 76 Houdini's Quotes

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

Kage Baker

Houdini's Quotes #1561
#2. The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #32384
#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

Houdini's Quotes #33676
#4. What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #64125
#5. It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #77231
#6. Rosabelle - answer - tell - pray, answer - look - tell - answer, answer - tell.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #187134
#7. I think if you would have cut Houdini with a knife, blood wouldn't come out, PR would.

Criss Angel

Houdini's Quotes #216469
#8. Pickpockets either work alone or in pairs, or what is called a mob.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #287301
#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

Houdini's Quotes #326887
#10. The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #368522
#11. The secret of showmanship consists not of what you really do, but what the mystery-loving public thinks you do.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #382939
#12. Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini,

Paul Muldoon

Houdini's Quotes #386011
#13. Never try to fool children, they expect nothing, and therefore see everything ...

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #397039
#14. The pickpocket is usually very well dressed and of prepossessing appearance.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #414885
#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

Houdini's Quotes #417687
#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

Houdini's Quotes #433929
#17. Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #487906
#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

Houdini's Quotes #520364
#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

Houdini's Quotes #581218
#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

Houdini's Quotes #617236
#21. I'm tired of fighting.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #635123
#22. There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general.

James Randi

Houdini's Quotes #655206
#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

Houdini's Quotes #709970
#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

Houdini's Quotes #713552
#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

Houdini's Quotes #736070
#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

Houdini's Quotes #751918
#27. Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #767725
#28. The greatest escape I ever made was when I left Appleton, Wisconsin.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #768093
#29. They do tricks even I can't figure out.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #799556
#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

Houdini's Quotes #905281
#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

Houdini's Quotes #923985
#32. It is needless to say that women make the most patient as well as the most dangerous pickpockets.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #933665
#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

Houdini's Quotes #973139
#34. Never tell the auidience how good you are, they will soon find out for themselves.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #973454
#35. Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #981268
#36. What the eyes sees, the ear hears, and the mind belives.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #994213
#37. Goes like a Magician soona without a wings and soon he will follow his own death like Houdini.

Deyth Banger

Houdini's Quotes #998760
#38. Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.

Penn Jillette

Houdini's Quotes #1012596
#39. My Brain is the key that sets me free.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #1035637
#40. I'm tired of fighting, Dash. I guess this thing is going to get me.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #1051623
#41. What simple and
ordinary lives we live,
underneath the shadows
of projection screen
artists

Phil Volatile

Houdini's Quotes #1071632
#42. The great trouble with magicians is the fact that they believe when they have bought a certain trick or piece of apparatus, and know the method of procedure, that they are full-fledged mystifiers.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #1112945
#43. How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #1218929
#44. Pulling a Houdini
Relationships are magic;
we're always getting each other out of handcuffs and strait-jackets
while locked in a steamer trunk underwater.

Beryl Dov

Houdini's Quotes #1230383
#45. A common pickpocket trick is for the operator to carry a shawl or overcoat carelessly over the left arm, and to take a seat on the right side of the person they intend to rob in a streetcar or other vehicle.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #1240342
#46. Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #1252683
#47. The Sun represents the right half of the body and the Moon the left half ...

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #1310424
#48. My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #1336614
#49. No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep me from my freedom.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #1354326
#50. Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #1359754
#51. A magician is only an actor - an actor pretending to be a magician.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #1372914
#52. I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life - all mystery and magic.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #1416177
#53. I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, and exhaust myself again; but do I feel pain? Never. How can I feel pain? There is no place for it.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #1432804
#54. But her favorite is the Houdini fantasy. Big Red disagrees with his biographers, who say that he was driven by his longing to shuck off this mortal coil. She knows that he was all the time just searching for a box that could hold him.

Karen Russell

Houdini's Quotes #1436052
#55. No one has the Houdini school of composition.

Morton Feldman

Houdini's Quotes #1450542
#56. Disloyalty in trusted servants is one of the most disheartening things that can happen to a public performer.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #1458833
#57. An old trick well done is far better than a new trick with no effect.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #1480286
#58. 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

Houdini's Quotes #1515814
#59. As a kid, I always was obsessed with Houdini.

David Blaine

Houdini's Quotes #1538999
#60. If I thought he had magic fingers, his lips were candidates for the Houdini Hall of Fame.

Katie MacAlister

Houdini's Quotes #1565635
#61. I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #1567992
#62. To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #1585576
#63. Keep up your enthusiasm! There is nothing more contagious than exuberant enthusiasm.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #1621696
#64. As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.

David Mitchell

Houdini's Quotes #1670208
#65. But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #1695830
#66. I always have on my mind the thought that next year I must do something greater, something more wonderful.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #1698067
#67. I do not believe that ghosts or spirits exist.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #1703701
#68. Houdini connected to people on an emotional level so that when he would escape that straight jacket it wasn't about the straight jacket. It was about people looking at it and escaping poverty. When you have that it's the truest form of magic.

Criss Angel

Houdini's Quotes #1706495
#69. But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #1728636
#70. Some say I do it this way, others say I do it that way, but I say I do it the other way.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #1730078
#71. Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #1759737
#72. I remember finding a Houdini book at the library and seeing an image of him chained on the side of a building. He looked so intense and scary, and I couldn't get that image out of my head. That started building up my love of magic.

David Blaine

Houdini's Quotes #1773666
#73. Houdini used to pull rabbits out of a hat, but he never tried to make a living out of selling them when he had pulled them out of the hat

Tommy Douglas

Houdini's Quotes #1803271
#74. Anyone who believes in magic is a fool.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #1857821
#75. I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #1862676
#76. No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's Quotes #1867874

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