Criss Angel
Criss Angel

Pain is a beautiful thing. When you feel pain, you know you're alive.

Criss Angel
Criss Angel

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.

Criss Angel
Criss Angel

I want to ride my motorcycle up the side of the Luxor to the light and vanish.

Criss Angel
Criss Angel

When the mind, body, and spirit work together, I believe anything is possible.

Criss Angel
Criss Angel

I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.

Criss Angel
Criss Angel

Magic speaks to the child in all of us. No matter how sophisticated we become, there's still a part of us who wants to believe in an alternative reality, where we can defy the laws of nature.

Criss Angel
Criss Angel

Indeed, most magicians catch the bug as kids. My first audience was my family in Long Island. My first 'assistant' was my mother, whom I levitated on a broom in our living room.

Criss Angel
Criss Angel

I think if you would have cut Houdini with a knife, blood wouldn't come out, PR would.

Criss Angel
Criss Angel

It's so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn't have any money, and my only car was mom's Hyundai.

Criss Angel
Criss Angel

I think that the problem is that people fear so many things and they don't live life to its fullest. And for me as an artist, if God should want me to come this Wednesday to the end of my life, so be it.

Criss Angel
Criss Angel

I worked 18 years to become an overnight success. Now MagicPlace.com will short circuit that process for people.

Criss Angel
Criss Angel

The magic kit we developed with Idea Village is an extraordinary success in 40,000 stores across America. The TV commercial we shot for it has produced amazing results - unbelievable.

Criss Angel
Criss Angel

I've never formally trained for pain management, but I have a good understanding of how to conquer it. I just analyze the pain, feel it in the moment, and then mentally become numb to it.

Criss Angel
Criss Angel

You can't please everyone, and trying to is the kiss of death. I don't care about Wayne Newton's demographics. When I do, I'll know that it's time to quit.

Criss Angel
Criss Angel

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.

Criss Angel
Criss Angel

I have my own foundation, which I just started, called Believe Anything Is Possible, which is going to be an organization to help the underprivileged.

Criss Angel
Criss Angel

I'm just a human being that is in touch with myself. And I'm honest with myself. And I really, at the end of the day, don't care what people say. I never cared about what people say.

Criss Angel
Criss Angel

If we all looked out for each other a little bit more, I think we wouldn't have a lot of the crisis that we have in today's society.

Criss Angel
Criss Angel

If people are fans of 'Mindfreak,' they are going to be so excited with 'Believe.' They are actually going to see those illusions that people think can only happen with trick photography.

Criss Angel
Criss Angel

We weren't poor growing up on Long Island, but it wasn't lavish - just a regular middle-class house.