I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.

Direct confrontation, direct conversation is real respect. And it's amazing how many people get that.

The fact is that violence gives you a rush.

Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.

I've never revved my car at a light for an attractive woman or an auto-rival, not even as a joke.

In reality, many people let go of religion later in life.

Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals.