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Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.
David Copperfield
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David Copperfield
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: September 16
Entertainer
Film Actor
Hypnotist
Illusionist
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Metuchen
New Jersey
David Seth Kotkin
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More quotes by David Copperfield
My job is to make people dream. Of course, there's a lot of technical stuff behind the scenes and a lot of hard work behind it, but I get to watch people see the result of that hard work and feel that wonder and feel that discovery, all the time.
David Copperfield
I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create.
David Copperfield
The real secret of magic lies in the performance.
David Copperfield
I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.
David Copperfield
I'm the luckiest man in the world - performing 500 shows a year and loving what I do - illusion IS my day to day life.
David Copperfield
When I was a kid, people wanted to be an astronaut. Today, kids want to be famous, and that's totally the wrong approach. You have to have authenticity in what you're doing. You have to really care about the core message of what you're saying, and then everything else will fall into place.
David Copperfield
I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.
David Copperfield
I was published in Tarbell Course in Magic when I was 12.
David Copperfield
Magic was a thing that, when I did it, it made all the kids go, Ah, that's cool.
David Copperfield
There was an old brochure for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts with a quote from Robert Redford or someone, that said, You're only as good as you dare to be bad.
David Copperfield
Magic has been something I've been really good at since I was really young. The ability has always come easy to me, I'm not sure why.
David Copperfield
Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.
David Copperfield
Everything that you'd see on The Ed Sullivan Show was at the Tannen's Magic. You'd think that if you could afford a trick like Doc Nixon's Dove Vanish, then you could be on The Ed Sullivan Show as an 8-year-old kid.
David Copperfield
Normally, I do magic on the stage. But I can make magic credible and resonate through a TV screen.
David Copperfield
All of the [Bob] Fosse-esque movements and point of view informed years and years of what I would do.
David Copperfield
What you think is impossible in life actually is possible.
David Copperfield
In movies, storytelling and every single art form, we're creating wonder. You're starting with a blank page and creating something that doesn't exist.
David Copperfield
You have to learn certain skills to present magic.
David Copperfield
I got to watch Frank Capra, in his eighties, in action. You read all the stories about Frank Capra fighting with the head of Columbia, Harry Cohn, It's my way or the highway. I got to watch that. He lambasted me, You cannot do this. You will fail. Finally, after another hour of conversation, I convinced him to help me write the speech.
David Copperfield
I started as a ventriloquist, a very bad ventriloquist. And people saw my lips moving and it was ridiculous, so finally I decided I'd better change my occupation.
David Copperfield