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I haven't hypnotised a whole lot of celebrities, becaus

I haven’t hypnotised a whole lot of celebrities, because they’re fearful of it.
Keith Barry
Sometimes I implant thoughts, sometimes I extract thoughts, but I don’t like to explain it too much. It’s based on science, deduction, and reasoning – it’s a bit like what ‘Sherlock’ does, except that’s a dramatised version. I look at every clue around me.
Keith Barry
My first TV show was 2003. You wouldn’t be in the game this long if you were using stooges and actors and all that kind of stuff; quite honestly, the answer is we don’t need them.
Keith Barry
In 2006, when doing a live stage show in Ireland, I tried for the first time to instantly induct a subject on stage, something I had never done before, nor did I know if it would ever work. The result almost cost me my career; the man I grabbed and instantly inducted went out cold and fell to the floor.
Keith Barry
I don’t like people being negative, whining, or moaning. If you’re in a situation you’re not in control of, just change.
Keith Barry
Dave Franco, I could put him up there with the best card throwers in the world. Not the best sleight of hand, but he could take a card and fire it over there and stick it into an apple. If he kept training at it, he could definitely break a Guinness World Record – he’s that good.
Keith Barry
We’re able to use certain techniques to get people to behave in certain ways. We’re able to use certain techniques to make it look like we’re reading minds, even though we’re not.
Keith Barry
I’ve trained with trainers in L.A., and they get complacent. They’re used to dealing with celebrity egos, so they cotton-wool you a bit.
Keith Barry
You need to talk like your boss and copy their actions. Like, if they cross their legs, you do the same. If people think you’re like them, you’re more inclined to get what you want out of them.
Keith Barry
If you look at the first TV stuff I did years ago, I’ve a pretty chubby look about me. I went at it quite hard in the gym at the time. If any footage of me ever came out from those days, I would genuinely die. I did step aerobics to lose the weight, and then I literally ran and ran the weight off on a treadmill.
Keith Barry
I haven’t done anything I regret; I don’t live for regrets. I’m not a mean person, so I don’t go around doing evil things to people.
Keith Barry
I can do lightning mathematics quicker than somebody can do them on a calculator.
Keith Barry
How does the subconscious mind work? Is it independent of the conscious mind? Is it programmed by experiences or instructions? Many questions come up, but the one answer is common: if you can access the subconscious, then you can reprogram it, period!
Keith Barry
By combining elements such as hypnosis, magic, neurolinguistic programming and psychology, I can make it appear that I can hack into people’s brains.
Keith Barry
I have been working with people on an individual basis for years to help them break habits and deal with anxiety. I’ve helped people with everything from fears, phobias, and stress right the way through to eczema – anything that is governed by our psyche and inner psychology.
Keith Barry
Anyone can learn a trick, but to make it entertaining, to put a presentation twist on it, and then to take it out there and really amaze people is a whole different ball game. You have to have some kind of a natural ability to do that, I suppose.
Keith Barry
Once people enjoy what I do, I don’t mind if they call me a magician or an illusionist or a hypnotist, entertainer, comedian, whatever people want to call me. I’m comfortable with all of the above, so I don’t really mind at all what people want to call me.
Keith Barry
I don’t believe I’m psychic, but if I can get people to focus on a specific thought, I can hack into brains and figure out what they’re thinking.
Keith Barry
Besides what I do, I love fishing; I love bringing my children to the forest, getting outdoors in nature. Get outside, people! Stop looking at screens.
Keith Barry
I wanted to develop a hypnosis show that no-one had ever seen before, so I made it very topical and interesting. I’ve created a UFC fight night every night on stage, where I hypnotise twenty people into thinking they’re mad, crazed UFC fans, and the energy is unbelievable.
Keith Barry
Needless to say, my stunts take years to perfect and are closely monitored by a team of trained professionals at all times, so no one should ever think about trying to re-create them.
Keith Barry
I buy so much when I go through airports: I buy psychology magazines; I buy ‘Mind,’ another magazine, ‘New Scientist,’ ‘Scientific America.’
Keith Barry
Some computers have security software that make it impossible to hack into, and it’s the same with brains – some malfunction, and some, you can’t hack into them at all.
Keith Barry
Studying neuro-linguistic programming is what teaches you how to implant and extract thoughts. Mixing psychology, hypnotism and magic somewhat goes into this area called mentalism, which is what I mostly do. It’s magic of the mind.
Keith Barry
When you have a traumatic experience, you look at your mindset.
Keith Barry
If you write your own material and perform your own material, then nobody can really expose it because if you keep your secrets close to yourself, then nobody can really expose you.
Keith Barry
For me, I live for performing live because people look at magicians on television, and they always wonder, ‘Is it a camera trick?’ ‘Is it a stooge?’ whereas, live, they know there’s no set-ups; there’s no stooges.
Keith Barry
I’m not saying I do evil things. I’m just saying if a cop stops me when I’m speeding, sometimes – not all the time – I might get out of that ticket. Let’s just say I don’t have any points on my licence in Ireland, and I drive relatively quickly.
Keith Barry
We all go to the gym, and we’re thinking about how we look and what we’re eating, but our brain is a muscle, and you have to train it!
Keith Barry
Once you’ve hypnotised someone once, you can pretty much put them under instantly any time you meet them afterwards.
Keith Barry
I mixed hypnosis and magic together to try and create a new area. I’m not trying to reinvent the wheel.
Keith Barry
I am constantly asked can anyone be hypnotized, and doe

I am constantly asked can anyone be hypnotized, and does it really work? Yes, and it does.
Keith Barry
The cosmetics world and mentalism are both arenas of deception, but I suppose the difference is that mentalists and magicians are more honest about it. People tell me I have good skin, and I tell them the magic secret is E45 cream: cheap, cheerful, and very effective.
Keith Barry