No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still trying to live down.

I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.

No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still trying to live down.

Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books.

The real secret of magic lies in the performance.

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.

For me to grow, I have to know about the foundation that came before.

For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.

I act like I'm 14, if you haven't figured that out yet.

I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.

I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.

I have always been interested in pushing magic forward.

I need a form of escape even when I'm working really hard.

I really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.

I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.

I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions.

If I was gay, why would I hide it?

It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.

It's okay for me to be gay, but God didn't make me that way.

Magic is my paint.

Magic really helped me.

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

My show is constantly evolving... new tricks are added, old ones are dropped... so it stays fresh. But it's the randomly selected participants from the audience that make it fresh and provide some of the best comic relief.

Never stop listening to your audience.

There is a safe spot within every tornado. My job is to find it.

When you're a guy and meet a girl the first time, you do whatever it takes.

You have to learn certain skills to present magic.

Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.

When youre a guy and meet a girl the first time you do whatever it takes.

Magicians are the people who began to use film as an illusion on stage.

My uncle's house burned down when I was 6 years old. We got out safely. But ever since, I've had a nightmare of dying in a fire.

The most important thing is presentation.

You have choices to make about what you do with the rest of your life.

I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.

But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe.

What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information.

One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.

Some of those STINKIN' press people just had to make fun of my decision in joining the show. They also made fun of other choices in my life that I was proud of then and still am now!!!

I'm pro responsible choice. You know, there is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices.

I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement.

Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require.

We have good security. It's hard to get in here. Barring a tactical entry where terrorists come in and hold us hostage, that's about the only thing that could possibly warrant me carrying a gun in the clubhouse. That's highly unlikely, and I admit that. But my personal belief is I don't want to suffer from the poor choices of others.

The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control.

Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

I truly don't have any formula for the choices I make.