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Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.

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
Illusion
Dreams
Dead
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Illusions

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From the very beginning, I studied acting, directing, lighting, dance and movement. I didn't rely on just the magic to take place. It's a shame that a lot of magicians just rely on the trick itself and they have no other abilities. They get away with the wonder factor, and I don't think that's enough. It's great, but it's not enough.
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There were really a bunch of old, old magic hobbyists at the time, some of them who actually had known [Harry] Houdini. You had to be 14 to go to these meetings, and he snuck me in at 12. It was glorious.
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It wasn't just about doing tricks. It's about taking an audience to another place, a special place, so they can really suspend their disbelief. Its about amazing the audience as well as moving them.
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For one of my specials, I said, I'm going to make an airplane disappear. Okay! And the next day, everything went crazy - it was like breaking the internet before the internet.
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I invented magic stuff it came very easily. Now, I sucked at everything else, but I was good at magic as a kid.
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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.
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I'm fascinated by the similarities and differences between comedians and magicians.
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The audience likes to be taken on new journeys.
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Reading [Judd Apatow] book, about his background, I think there's a great similarity. What gives him the fire to work hard? He worked hard, researching the comedians of the time, what touched him about it.
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I act like I'm 14, if you haven't figured that out yet.
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Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.
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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.
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Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.
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I'm a horrible karaoke singer.
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I will now make a scorpion appear in Osama bin Laden's pants
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I'm really happy that I had the foundations of knowing where I came from.
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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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I really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.
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I really wanted to succeed. I wanted to be accepted. I read every magic book that I possibly could, studied every move, and by the time I was 12, they really accepted me, they embraced me.
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My father wanted to be an actor, dreamed about being an actor, but he gave it up because my mom and his family told him, You're never going to make it it's too tough out there.
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