I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.
David BlaineMy mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest trick, which now that I look back on some things, she would love it, she would say that's amazing, or if I'd make the ugliest drawing, she would hang it up. She was amazing.
David Blaine