My favorite makeup look was for my 'Eyes Wide Open' video done by Torsten Witte. It was so dramatic and definitely captured the magic of the video.
What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.
They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic.
I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.
Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
It's not sometimes realistic to think that something magical can happen, but I think I look for the magic.
When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic.
I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.
With many things in life, you're there because there's a cute girl around that you want to go out with, and you end up finding magic. You end up not caring about the girl but wanting to stay there because of what you found. That happened with 'Amarcord' to me.
A sequel is such a daunting thing, because you don't want to lose the magic and the charm of the first one.
This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.
There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.
It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
The Internet has always been, and always will be, a magic box.
People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.
Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.
Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
The magic is in the man, not the 100 miles.
Magic touches people in the way great art does. It lets them see the world with new eyes.
I just thought it was magic that you could stick a bit of paper in some coffee-type liquid and a picture comes out.
But the whole idea of the transformation... mystery, transformation, and manipulations - those were the things that Marcel was a magician at. That's his magic.
As far as me participating in 'WrestleMania 32', the Magic 8-Ball says, 'Ask again later.'
Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear.
Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
My career is one of people involvement. I'm a promoter of the people, by the people, for the people. My magic lies, my people ties, this is what I want to do. I'm in it to win, I cant give in, I can't give up and I cant quit. Victory is mine. Working together works.
If you can see the magic in a fairytale, you can face the future.
With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time with different brokers on 'Wall Street.' It helps get the rhythm of the piece and the tone, and how overplayed or underplayed it might be. That's also the magic of movies: You get to hang out and live these different lives.
I can cite a few cases of where people have tampered around with magic and witchcraft that they've been very severely frightened and traumatised by some of the outcomes. I mean we are playing with fire, and I had to say that.
Is there nothing the prodigiously talented Ann Patchett can't do? She's channeled the world of opera, Boston politics, magic, unwed motherhood, and race relations, creating scenarios so indelible, you swear they are right outside your door.
It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back to punk for me, because that was the last time, punk rock or grunge rock, was the last time that passion ruled the airwaves.
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.
