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I think the toughest thing about being an actor in a film is to be with a director who doesn't know what they want. And that can be really, really frustrating.

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I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That's why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things a person can do.

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In the winters, I enrolled in the hotel management program at Cornell University. I naively thought that I knew something about sleight-of-hand, entertainment and food, and that would be all I needed.

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I'm much more interested in lesser-known eccentrics and characters and performers. Like Matthew Buchinger, who was born in Germany in 1674, had no arms or legs and yet did magic, and had 14 kids, and made the most extraordinary calligraphy.

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I know absolutely nothing about the 20th Century.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: Unknown

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