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Criss Angel
American
Entertainer
Born:
Dec 19
,
1967
Believe
Life
Me
People
Think
You
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When the mind, body, and spirit work together, I believe anything is possible.
Criss Angel
Work
Together
Mind
Believe
Possible
Spirit
Anything
Anything Is Possible
Work Together
Body
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.
Criss Angel
You
Three
Live
Every
Sleeping
Way
Direction
Hour
Hours
Know
Going
Miles
Used
Night
Two
You can just go to a magic shop or magic builder and buy what most magicians do, but that's not what I'm about. With 'Mindfreak' on television and 'Believe' live, I want to bring things that people have never seen before. That process is very difficult. It's very challenging, and you never know how long it's going to take - months or years.
Criss Angel
Buy
You
People
Long
Seen
Before
Live
Believe
Difficult
Months
Television
Magic
About
Magicians
Take
Never
Know
Most
Builder
How
Go
Years
Very
Shop
Going
Just
Want
Process
Challenging
Things
Bring
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
Life
God
Me
People
Problem
Live Life
Fear
My Life
Live
Think
Wednesday
Come
End
Artist
Want
Should
Fullest
Many
Things
Well I think everything up to this point that I've been exposed to in my life has had an influence on me in some way, shape, or form even if I'm not conscious of it. So I definitely think that my studies in wu-shu, kung-fu, karate, kenpo, taikwando, all of that stuff certainly has an affect. I don't think I follow any discipline traditionally.
Criss Angel
Life
Me
Discipline
My Life
Think
Everything
Way
Definitely
Follow
Some
Point
Shape
Had
Studies
Stuff
Well
Affect
Been
Up
Any
Influence
Form
Karate
Certainly
Exposed
Even
Conscious
I think we can really use magic in a way never attempted before to inspire these children, help rally their self-confidence and even help them develop social skills. This is a national effort, not just here in Las Vegas. I know we can give them a true passion.
Criss Angel
Inspire
Passion
National
Before
Think
Rally
Way
Magic
Give
Vegas
Never
Attempted
Develop
Self-Confidence
True
Know
Effort
Just
Children
Social
Them
Really
Skills
Use
Help
Even
Social Skills
Las Vegas
Here
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
Nature
Reality
Matter
Become
Believe
Defy
Magic
Laws
Part
Sophisticated
Alternative
How
Still
Child
Where
Wants
Us
Speaks
Who
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
Family
Mother
Long
First
Living
Our
Indeed
Kids
Broom
Magicians
Long Island
Catch
Most
Bug
Island
Audience
Room
Whom
Living Room
Assistant
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
Me
Father
Face
Fears
Own
My Own
Had
Arms
Passed
Affect
Very
Died
Realized
Moment
Dad
Profound
Needed
One of the most gratifying things I get as an artist is when people watch me do these different demonstrations, and they in some way feel empowered by what I'm doing so they can confront their own fears. Maybe it's the fear of getting in an elevator; maybe it's the fear of going on a plane and seeing the world.
Criss Angel
Me
People
World
Fear
Fears
Own
Way
Seeing
Some
Feel
Most
Empowered
Demonstrations
Doing
Get
Artist
Getting
Going
Maybe
Different
Confront
Plane
Gratifying
Elevator
Things
Watch
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.
Criss Angel
You
People
Poverty
Looking
Would
Magic
About
Emotional
Emotional Level
He
Houdini
Truest
Escape
Escaping
Jacket
Form
Straight
Connected
Level
I've never, ever had any therapy. Some might say I need it, but I've never seen a shrink or a psychologist or anything like that.
Criss Angel
Seen
Say
Some
Never
Had
Like
Any
Anything
Psychologist
Might
Therapy
Shrink
Ever
Need
I came up with the term 'mindfreak' because I didn't like the word 'magician.' I felt like I wanted to coin a term that would be basically the reaction to my art. It would be a mindfreak and so that's why I came up with that. But, many people say I'm really a student of humanity and psychology.
Criss Angel
Art
Humanity
People
Word
Say
Would
Would-Be
People Say
Magician
Student
Term
Like
Reaction
Because
Felt
Came
Up
Wanted
Psychology
Really
Many
Why
Basically
Coin
A lot of the demonstrations that I do, when I get inside people's minds, is understanding human behavior and understanding how people think and getting their patterns down so I know how to create the illusion that I get inside their brain.
Criss Angel
People
Behavior
Illusion
Understanding
Down
Think
Minds
Inside
Know
How
Demonstrations
Brain
Lot
Get
Getting
Human
Human Behavior
Patterns
Create
I love the press; I even like the people that don't like me. If it wasn't for those people, no one would know who I was and I wouldn't have a gig.
Criss Angel
Love
Me
People
Press
Those
Gig
Would
No-One
Like
Know
Who
Even
Well to be perfectly frank with you I never created art or have done demonstrations for anyone before myself artistically. I always do it to try to push my own envelope to be the best I can be.
Criss Angel
Art
Best
Myself
You
Try
Before
Own
Frank
My Own
Push
Never
Envelope
Perfectly
Well
Always
Demonstrations
Done
Anyone
Created
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.
Criss Angel
You
Respect
Thought
Three
Animals
First
Group
Say
Immense
Television
Circus
Television Show
Rings
Had
Know
Well
Because
Were
Just
Them
Really
Show
Reinventing
We weren't poor growing up on Long Island, but it wasn't lavish - just a regular middle-class house.
Criss Angel
Long
Lavish
Long Island
House
Island
Were
Up
Just
Poor
Regular
Growing
Growing Up
I had an amazing childhood, lots of love. But my dad worked his tail off, getting up at 4 in the morning and going off at 5, 6 o'clock, yet he always had time to spend with his kids and his wife.
Criss Angel
Love
Time
Morning
Amazing
Wife
Spend
Kids
Tail
Had
He
Always
His
Off
Lots
Up
Getting
Going
Childhood
Worked
Dad
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.
Criss Angel
Happiness
Life
Love
Buy
Myself
Health
You
Try
Important
Live
Older
Believe
Say
Tougher
Get
Vicious
Cycle
Actually
Things
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
Today
Think
Society
Other
Bit
Crisis
Out
More
Looked
Lot
Little
Little Bit
Each
Magic is the oldest part of the show business profession. It can now be used as a forward-thinking tool to build a child's confidence. It has been an amazing part in many entertainers' lives, including Steve Martin and the late Johnny Carson.
Criss Angel
Confidence
Business
Amazing
Build
Late
Tool
Has-Been
Entertainers
Magic
Martin
Johnny
Johnny Carson
Part
Steve
Steve Martin
Been
Child
Used
Show
Show Business
Profession
Many
Including
Now
Lives
Oldest
I have real TV studios. If I have an idea, I can go shoot it. I can experiment. If I choose to air it or not, it's at my discretion. I don't have to do it to somebody else's time frame.
Criss Angel
Time
Somebody
Experiment
Else
Frame
Air
TV
Studios
Idea
Real
Go
Time Frame
Discretion
Shoot
Choose
I'm a workaholic. I work and work and work.
Criss Angel
Work
Workaholic
I have mentally overcome situations most of you would be terrified to ever attempt: heights, fire, needles, spiders, snakes, angry monkeys, being shot, being hit by a car, going blind - you name it, I have been in a situation where I have had to mentally overcome my inherent fears to do my job.
Criss Angel
Angry
You
Overcome
Car
Job
Fears
Fire
Situation
Heights
Spiders
Would
Would-Be
Mentally
Attempt
Had
Name
Most
Blind
Terrified
Been
Snakes
Hit
Going
Situations
Being
Where
Shot
Inherent
Ever
Monkeys
Needles
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.
Criss Angel
You
Stage
Live
Every
Television
Television Show
Trick
See
Performer
Am
Yes
Much
Show
Street
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