Top 25 Magician Quotes of 42

Mime makes the invisible, visible and the visible, invisible.

Mime makes the invisible, visible and the visible, invisible.

Marcel Marceau

Invisible, Magician, Mime

"Core Media Collection for Elementary Schools". Book by Betty McDavid and Lucy Gregor Brown, 1978.

A magician is only an actor - an actor pretending to be a magician.

Harry Houdini

Actors, Pretending, Magician

A magician is an actor playing the part of a magician.

Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin

Magic, Actors, Magician

Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, Louis Hoffmann (2011). “Secrets of Conjuring and Magic: Or How to Become a Wizard”, p.43, Cambridge University Press

There is magic, but you have to be the magician. You have to make the magic happen.

Sidney Sheldon

Magic, Magician, Happens

Dogs are the magicians of the universe.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Dog, Magician, Universe

Actors and magicians are both performers and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.

Steve Carell

Actors, Magician, Performers

"Steve Carell, Jim Carrey, Olivia Wilde, Steve Buscemi, John Francis Daley, and Jonathan Goldstein Talk THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE". Interview with Adam Chitwood, collider.com. March 11, 2013.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Ouida

Kind, Magician, Familiarity

Ouida (1890*). “Pascarel. Princess Napraxine”

A true magician must not undertake anything regarding which he is not thoroughly informed.

Franz Bardon

Magic, Magician, Mysticism

Anyone without a sense of humor is too pretentious to be a good magician.

Anton Szandor LaVey

Sense Of Humor, Pretentious, Magician

God is a scientist, not a magician.

Albert Einstein

Magic, Scientist, Magician

I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.

Susanna Clarke

Lying, Magic, Magician

Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.234, Bloomsbury Publishing

God is not a demiurge [demigod] or a magician, but the Creator who gives being to all entities.

Pope Francis

Divine, Wands, Magician

"Pope Francis: 'Evolution ... is not inconsistent with the notion of creation'". www.ncronline.org. October 27, 2014.

Most magicians are afraid of magic.

Max Maven

Magic, Magician

If I don't fool you, I'm not doing my job as a magician. If I make you feel foolish, I'm not doing my job as a human being.

Jerry Andrus

Jobs, Fool, Magician

If I wrote a musical it wouldn't be about me. Although I do some magic, so it would probably be about a magician who appeared and re-appeared all over the place.

Neil Patrick Harris

Magic, Musical, Magician