I felt old when I was young and I feel younger now. Maybe that's a trick of my mind, but I'm springier and lighter.
I've worked ever since I was a kid with a two-bit kit of magic tricks trying to improve my skills at entertaining whatever public I had - and to make myself ready, whenever the breaks came, to entertain a wider and more demanding public.
It takes more than some mind games, a couple of parlor tricks, to get under my skin.
You could get in rehearsals, pre-production, anything that would actually contribute to the understanding of how a film gets made. I actually find those things increase people's interest in a movie and like that better than worrying about showing the tricks behind the curtain.
The trick is that you have to stay naked. You must be naked.
I am a street performer as much as I am a stage performer. Yes, I have a television show, but every trick, every 'Mindfreak' you see, I can do live.
If life is really for the living, then the trick to living well is to learn to live it fully, to soak it up, to revel in it.
Also, go inside and listen to your body, because your body will never lie to you. Your mind will play tricks, but the way you feel in your heart, in your guts, is the truth.
I hate nothing more than sugary photographs with tricks, poses and effects. So allow me to be honest ?and tell the truth about our age and its people.
I write about misuses of evidence in plenty of different spheres: scaremongering journalists, obvious quacks and naturopaths, and flaws in the way that evidence is used in mainstream academia, medicine and in (government) policy. One of the things I always found interesting is the same tricks are used to distort medicine in all of those domains.
While everyone else was saying Trick or Treat my dad was telling us to say Triki Tras.
The trick is finding a person whose flaws don't drive you crazy. . . you know. . . someone whose flaws you can live with. . . someone who can stand your flaws, too.
I've learned my tricks. I know what I like. I do not wait around. I initiate. And I'm not all about frequency - I favor intensity.
I'm not known for my intellectual range and tricks have been played on me.
I have tried to improve telescopes and practiced continually to see with them. These instruments have play'd me so many tricks that I have at last found them out in many of their humours.
Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.
That which we call wit consists much in quickness and tricks, and is so full of lightness that it seldom goes with judgment and solidity; but when they do meet, it is commonly in an honest man.
I think that's the trick: wanting what I have.
I just want to continue to be challenged and to keep getting better and better. I don't ever want to lose that or become complacent or pulling tricks.
Unfortunately the trick to great execution is to say no a lot.