But when I go off stage I don't have a deck of cards with me all the time.

What you think is impossible in life actually is possible.

If you ever saw All That Jazz [1979], Bob Fosse was kind of raised dancing in strip joints and the whole era of burlesque, and that form ran his visual aesthetic, the pacing and rhythm of what he did.

Performing my show is something I constantly think about.

All of the [Bob] Fosse-esque movements and point of view informed years and years of what I would do.

To make [parents] happy, I went to Fordham University for three weeks, while at the same time running ads in Variety, "magician-actor David Copperfield."

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