Quote

I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!

David Copperfield

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

David Copperfield
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: September 16
Entertainer
Film Actor
Hypnotist
Illusionist
Stunt Performer
Writer
Metuchen
New Jersey
David Seth Kotkin
Fountain
Caused
Discovered
Amazing
Youth
Secret
Keep
Something
Controversy

More quotes by David Copperfield

Image
My uncle's house burned down when I was 6 years old. We got out safely. But ever since, I've had a nightmare of dying in a fire.
David Copperfield
Image
I'm inventing new principles. The audience has a point of view that no one can predict.
David Copperfield
Image
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.
David Copperfield
Image
What you think is impossible in life actually is possible.
David Copperfield
Image
When the time came to say, Mom, I want to do this as a job, it was brutal. She was really against it. There were screaming matches. Some people are shut down by that and get defeated by it, and other people are empowered by the negativity. My father kind of encouraged me through that.
David Copperfield
Image
The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.
David Copperfield
Image
Magic is used in espionage, all the time, for clandestine things. I've got a whole library from a gentleman who was hired by the CIA to create magic technology for the use of anti-terrorism.
David Copperfield
Image
Physical rehab is often very, very hard work.
David Copperfield
Image
But when I go off stage I don't have a deck of cards with me all the time.
David Copperfield
Image
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
Image
I think the negative reinforcement really helped me in my very beginnings.
David Copperfield
Image
Everyone was talking about having airplanes disappear. And I said, Wait, wait, wait. That's what you like? I'd tell you a story about something like my girlfriend leaving me, and the magic was really hard. The airplane thing was comparatively easy, and people liked that thing? I realized at that moment, the power of the simple idea.
David Copperfield
Image
Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.
David Copperfield
Image
I'm really happy that I had the foundations of knowing where I came from.
David Copperfield
Image
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
Image
Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!
David Copperfield
Image
I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create.
David Copperfield
Image
What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.
David Copperfield
Image
I act like I'm 14, if you haven't figured that out yet.
David Copperfield
Image
The audience likes to be taken on new journeys.
David Copperfield