A biography for Criss Angelhasn’t been written yet.
“And you know, I'm so used to going 100 miles an hour in every direction and sleeping you know, two, three hours a night, and that's the way I live.”
“I am a very emotional person.”
“We weren't poor growing up on Long Island, but it wasn't lavish - just a regular middle-class house.”
“I put my life in danger every time I do some of these demonstrations, whether it's in the audience hanging upside down or on the stage. We now have a lot of dangerous stunts where anything can go wrong. In fact, I have fallen two stories and landed on the stage, so I am well aware of the dangers.”
“To me, it's never about the trick. I don't care about how something works. I care about how people feel when they watch it. You know, that - that connection - that emotional connection is true magic.”
“I've been a live performer longer than I've been a television performer. For me, live is where it's at.”
“We are thrilled to work with Fun and share the same sentiment that we want do some really exciting and innovative things for the magic community.”
“Houdini connected to people on an emotional level so that when he would escape that straight jacket it wasn't about the straight jacket. It was about people looking at it and escaping poverty. When you have that it's the truest form of magic.”
“I'm actually tougher on myself as I get older. It's a vicious cycle. The things that are important in life are the things that you can't buy in life: love, health and happiness. I say that, and I believe that, and I try to live that.”
“I want to ride my motorcycle up the side of the Luxor to the light and vanish.”
“Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?”
“Well, I had an immense respect for Cirque du Soleil when I first say them in the '80s on a television show and just thought, you know, this group is really reinventing the circus, as you know. Because there wasn't three rings. There were no animals.”
“When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I realized that I needed to face my own fears.”