Magic Quotes

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.

The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.

Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.

Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.

I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

OK, magic boy, let's see who you really are.

My fat cells have a memory like Einstein! I'm proof that surgery is not a magic potion. There are many ways to sabotage it.

Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.

My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind.

Stars wide of belt often cultivated a gentlemanly grandeur, a groomed refinement that filtered through their fingertips - the dainty fidgets of Hardy's plump digits, Orson Welles performing magic tricks with nimble dexterity, Jackie Gleason lofting a teacup to his lips as if he were Lady Bracknell - or through a fine set of twinkle-toes.

So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team.

Never ever doubt in magic. The purest honest thoughts come from children, ask any child if they believe in magic and they will tell you the truth.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

I've often wondered about people that come to the profession late in life. I've wanted to be an actor since the first grade. I watched a play being performed by the third grade class, and it was... magic.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

When I was 15, I had a crush on this guy who was really good at magic, and so I learned to juggle, thinking it would impress him. I spent hours and hours practicing, planning to show him. And then I never even saw him again. But at least I learned how to juggle.

Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.

Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is.

In this kind of situation, we tend to cling to his convictions, we believe that, by magic, we are going to recover. Then we agree to drive less good cars and we are fatally more exposed. It is what finally happened to me with Ensign.

If I wrote a musical it wouldn't be about me. Although I do some magic, so it would probably be about a magician who appeared and re-appeared all over the place.

I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In 'The Colour of Magic' most of the city is set alight. It's a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams's 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.'

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

You can keep yourself alive. That's the magic of being an actor.