Houdini Quotes

Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there. - Penn Jillette

There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general. - James Randi

There are many parallels between therapy and theatre. Therapy is a creative conversation like improvisation. There are rules that make it honest yet constructed. It's one of the ways people try to understand themselves. The Escapologist achieves this balance between the cerebral intensity of the therapy and the spectacular stunts of Houdini. - Graham Eatough

The greatest escape I ever made was when I left Appleton, Wisconsin. - Harry Houdini

The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed. - Harry Houdini

The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance. - Harry Houdini

Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter. - Harry Houdini

No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth. - Harry Houdini

No one has the Houdini school of composition. - Morton Feldman