The Most Important Thing Is Presentation.

Magic Is Used In Espionage, All The Time, For Clandestine Things. I've Got A Whole Library From A Gentleman Who Was Hired By The Cia To Create Magic Technology For The Use Of Anti-terrorism.

My Father Kind Of Encouraged Me Through That. Exactly,[work] Not As An Actor, Obviously, But As Someone In Show Business That Had Some Success. He Told Me To Live The Impossible. "live The Impossible!"

But When I Go Off Stage I Don't Have A Deck Of Cards With Me All The Time.

I Learned That There Were Two Ways I Could Live My Life: Following My Dreams Or Doing Something Else. Dreams Aren't A Matter Of Chance, But A Matter Of Choice. When I Dream, I Believe I Am Rehearsing My Future.

There Was A Place In New York Called Tannen's Magic. It Still Exists. But Back In The Day, It Was Really Fantastic. You'd Go Into The Old Wurlitzer Building, Take The Elevator To The 13th Floor, Which Was Labeled 14, Because Of Bad Luck, The Elevator Would Open, And You'd Be In Heaven. It Was All Of These Guys Doing Magic Stuff With Props. It's Kind Of Gone Now, That Experience, The Brick-and-mortar Magic Shop, But You Really Felt Like You'd Landed In The Most Amazing Place In The World.