Michael Carbonaro Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. I went to NYU completely with the idea I wanted to be the next David Copperfield.

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#3. I've always performed magic as a kid.

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#4. 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.

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#5. 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.

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#6. I found that if I stack the moments correctly, people will believe in the most outrageous things.

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#7. I'm doing everything I can to take the magician out of the equation of magic.

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#8. The author and screenwriter William Goldman says that "the key to all story endings is to give the audience what it wants, but not in the way it expects.

Jon Steel

#9. I might be 'Candid Camera's number one fan.

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#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.

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#11. While contemporary non-Evangelicals have virtually reduced faith to 'courageous ignorance,' Evangelicals have hardly been faithful in defending God's objective communication of truth.

Ronald H. Nash

#12. 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.

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#13. Great Leadership sometimes requires taking a step backward in order to take a leap forward.

Todd Stocker

#14. I am a hopeless mamma's boy.

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#15. I'll order anything that has the word 'fig' or 'crusted' in the menu description.

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#16. I say 'incantation' a lot, when what I really mean 'incarnation.' It's a programmed mistake.

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#17. Magic is really performing special effects live.

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#18. I love acting on television and look forward to more roles, for sure. And I also love and need to perform live shows.

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#19. You want to know whether we're better off? I've got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

Joe Biden

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

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#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.

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#22. Google was now my teacher.
I was a student of the world.

Vanessa Garden

#23. 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.

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#24. I guess you heard, Hillary Clinton has a new campaign slogan: "I've fallen and I can't get up!"

Jay Leno

#25. I have heard I look like the guy from 'The Carbonaro Effect.'

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#26. 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.

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#27. 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.

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#28. 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.

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#29. People are really willing to believe in impossible things, which is really beautiful.

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