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!"

It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.

The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.

Everyone understands cards and relates to it. They have them in their homes and in their hands, so it makes them very accessible.

Everything that you'd see on The Ed Sullivan Show was at the Tannen's Magic. You'd think that if you could afford a trick like Doc Nixon's Dove Vanish, then you could be on The Ed Sullivan Show as an 8-year-old kid.

Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.

There was another guy suggested. He was a tall and dark-haired and Jewy, and I said, "No, he's too close to me." It ended up being Jerry Seinfeld.