Occupation: Illusionist Birth: March 5, 1955
The cliche of the nerdy kid who doesn't go outside and just plays games is completely untrue. And it's also true for the nerdy kid who studies comic ….
The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible..
I like movies that are scary, but I don't want them to be dirt dumb. I want a movie that gets my blood racing, makes me laugh, but also gives me some….
The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right aft….
I don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon..
I will forever stick up for Catholics and Christians in general. With a small number of very horrible exceptions, they do play by the rules..
In my run-ins with Christians... I find that they really are good moral people. And we overlap on everything, and they don't seem to be the kind of p….
We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known..
But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-….
I started out as a juggler, so I know what it means to spend eight hours a day, seven days a week practicing something that people just dismiss with ….
I don't believe in vengeance. Really, when all is said and done, I probably don't believe in punishment..
Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision..
If you like the stuff I do, my chances of liking you go up..
One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality..
We knew that we were kind of odd and creeps, and we wanted to do odd, creepy stuff for people who wanted to see that..
Mentally ill people come from all belief systems..
A two-party system is way too good for those two parties..
We need a president who realizes that there's no government business in show business..
Believing there is no God means the suffering I've seen in my family and indeed all the suffering in the world isn't caused by any omniscient, omnipr….
I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark, read my books..
If I had to imagine omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent power in the universe that chose to make my mother suffer, I don't know how I would make that….