Words matter. These are the best Michael Carbonaro Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The goal is to really blur the line. Can you perform a magic trick in a way that someone doesn’t think it’s a magic trick but is something amazing they haven’t seen before? Then they have to wrestle with reality.
Magic is really performing special effects live.
I found that if I stack the moments correctly, people will believe in the most outrageous things.
People are really willing to believe in impossible things, which is really beautiful.
I’m doing everything I can to take the magician out of the equation of magic.
Alan Funt was the first hidden-camera magician. It was the playful nature of the way he worked that really inspired me. A lot of prank shows and hidden-camera shows can be a little mean-spirited. Funt was never like that.
Magic is like special effects live, and I love to perform, so it sounded like doing magic tricks were a good way to entertain people.
My goal is to get people to really believe that the impossible is real, and not that I’m responsible for it. I want them to believe that they’re having the most unusual, magical and bizarre days of their lives.
I am a hopeless mamma’s boy.
My goal was becoming the next David Copperfield. I learned how to be a performer by emulating him as a kid – his formula of just talking to people onstage, being free to improvise, being charming and witty with a crowd, together with great, beautiful magic.
I might be ‘Candid Camera’s number one fan.
I have heard I look like the guy from ‘The Carbonaro Effect.’
I went to NYU completely with the idea I wanted to be the next David Copperfield.
Growing up, I loved magic, I loved acting, I loved comedy. I really didn’t know what direction I was going. I was trying a whole bunch of stuff.
