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When people say you can't do it - that it's impossible - never lose hope. Just because they couldn't doesn't mean you can't.

David Copperfield

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David Copperfield
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: September 16
Entertainer
Film Actor
Hypnotist
Illusionist
Stunt Performer
Writer
Metuchen
New Jersey
David Seth Kotkin
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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.
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I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.
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I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and inspire.
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It's okay for me to be gay, but God didn't make me that way.
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I have a bunch of islands in the Bahamas that we made into this amazing, magical place. And we have these birds they're trained to do certain things on the island, which is awesome. These toucans had a baby toucan, and the baby toucan, every hour that you'd look at this toucan, he would change.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You lose your sense of wonder the more you learn, right? When you go to film school and learn about moviemaking, you go to see movies and then only see where the lights are, where the cuts are, watching it from a technical basis, nodding your head, Oh, that was good. The feeling of surprise, the feeling of being transported is further away.
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Like in comedy, you know the names of the people who steal things that others work really hard on. It really sucks. And, in magic, it's not just the hard work of getting the words and attitude and point of view right you're taking an actual invention, making something over three or four years, and somebody can just take it.
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I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!
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I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.
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I love creating new things. It's kind of my job, it's what I do, and I really have fun with it.
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I'm trying to change theater, in my own way - not just magic. I say that humbly, because I'm learning every single day. I do 15 shows a week, and every single audience I have is like a test screening for you, when you listen and go, Really? They laughed at that? All over the stage I have lines, written onstage, that I'm changing every single d
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What you think is impossible in life actually is possible.
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All of the [Bob] Fosse-esque movements and point of view informed years and years of what I would do.
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I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.
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There is a safe spot within every tornado. My job is to find it.
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Normally, I do magic on the stage. But I can make magic credible and resonate through a TV screen.
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For me, I was watching Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Orson Welles, Victor Fleming movies, and I said, I want to tell stories like that. I want to move people like that. But I'm good at magic, so what am I going to do? So I started using magic for the right reasons - to get the girl.
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