As a kid I used to hold my breath longer than anybody else, and then I heard stories about people accidently underwater for 45 minutes - how do you recover from that? It's not a miracle. Something allows us to survive.
I hope people remember me as a guy who brought magic to the people. You know, pushed the boundaries of wonder.
People haven't even begun to tap into the potential of what the mind is possible of doing. We only use a certain percentage of our brains.
When I was about 19, I shot a tape of me doing magic just to people on the streets, and I would edit together all the reactions and I kept pushing this idea, and then ABC came on board and made my first show.
I do a lot of research on what people have done in the past.
For every guy who would throw an egg there would be 100 people waving.
For a lot of people it's boring. It's a guy sitting in a box.