It's okay for me to be gay, but God didn't make me that way.

I invented magic stuff; it came very easily. Now, I sucked at everything else, but I was good at magic as a kid.

Magicians are the people who began to use film as an illusion on stage.

The more educated you get, the better shot you have to get it right, but if you're really trying something different, it's a challenge every time.

When people say you can't do it - that it's impossible - never lose hope. Just because they couldn't doesn't mean you can't.

You have to learn certain skills to present magic.

Actually, I started as a ventriloquist and my music teacher said, "Why don't you emcee the talent show?" My act was out of the back of Boys' Life magazine-they had a whole series of jokes in the back of Boys' Life magazine for Boy Scouts. So my act was jokes with my ventriloquist figure, and it was really bad, but I walked into the classroom afterward and the kids went, "Wow, you're cool." I wasn't cool at all, but I thought, "Well, this is a pretty good deal."