But Vegas is really my first home.

I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.

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!"

I love creating new things. It's kind of my job, it's what I do, and I really have fun with it.

As I did more of that, I realized, "Well, maybe I should do more magic."

My mother was really loving and wonderful and tough as hell.

I got to watch Frank Capra, in his eighties, in action. You read all the stories about Frank Capra fighting with the head of Columbia, Harry Cohn, "It's my way or the highway." I got to watch that. He lambasted me, "You cannot do this. You will fail." Finally, after another hour of conversation, I convinced him to help me write the speech.