Words matter. These are the best Keith Barry Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I haven’t hypnotised a whole lot of celebrities, because they’re fearful of it.
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.
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.
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.
I don’t like people being negative, whining, or moaning. If you’re in a situation you’re not in control of, just change.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I can do lightning mathematics quicker than somebody can do them on a calculator.
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!
By combining elements such as hypnosis, magic, neurolinguistic programming and psychology, I can make it appear that I can hack into people’s brains.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I buy so much when I go through airports: I buy psychology magazines; I buy ‘Mind,’ another magazine, ‘New Scientist,’ ‘Scientific America.’
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.
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.
When you have a traumatic experience, you look at your mindset.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Once you’ve hypnotised someone once, you can pretty much put them under instantly any time you meet them afterwards.
I mixed hypnosis and magic together to try and create a new area. I’m not trying to reinvent the wheel.
I am constantly asked can anyone be hypnotized, and does it really work? Yes, and it does.
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.