Teller
Teller
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntertainer
Date of Birth14 February 1948
CountryUnited States of America
apt sad
I'm more apt to cry at something beautiful than at something sad.
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Indian street magic tends to be very gory, blood and guts. One trick is for a magician to take a knife and appear to cut his kid's head almost off. The magician then says to the crowd, 'Well I can continue to cut off my son's head or you can all give me some money.' Then he wanders around and takes 10 rupees from everyone and restores his son.
beauty
If you do something that you're proud of, that someone else understands, that is a thing of beauty that wasn't there before - you can't beat that.
bus leave life mistake step street
In real life, the most important decision you ever make is, where does reality leave off and make-believe begin? If you make a mistake about that, you're dead. You know, you're out on the street corner. You think there's no bus coming. You step out, you're dead.
anyone might reasonably spending time
Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.
eyes mean open reality seems
Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn't mean it is simple.
controlled human magicians thousands
Magicians have done controlled testing in human perception for thousands of years.
becomes lets
When a magician lets you notice something on your own, his lie becomes impenetrable.
Nothing fools you better than the lie you tell yourself.
Onstage, I find absolutely nothing but exhilaration in not talking.
crap holding magicians redundant
Generally, magicians don't know what to say, so they say stupid and redundant crap like, 'Here I am holding a red ball.'
In America, magic has never been an important part of peoples' lives.
kids dark sides
As a kid, I was a Hitchcock lover; I cared about the dark side of things.
glasses ourselves pair rather trying understanding
Rather than thinking of ourselves as a computer, and trying to give you computer-like functionality, it's better to start from the understanding that this is a pair of glasses, and say, 'How smart can we make these glasses for you?'