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The most important thing is presentation.

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
Presentation
Magic
Important
Thing

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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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I had a point of view, which was different. I looked at magic as theater, as storytelling, and I tried to have an approach that was different from what they were doing. How can I move people and really get them to dream with a card trick, with coin magic, or even a piece of stage magic?
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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.
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I will now make a scorpion appear in Osama bin Laden's pants
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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.
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I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.
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I discovered Musha Cay and the islands around it in the Exumas.
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The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.
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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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No, I think marriage is a great thing.
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The audience likes to be taken on new journeys.
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Pippin had an opening number called Magic to Do, and Jules Fisher, the brilliant lighting designer lit it. Tony Walton did all of the sets. As a kid I thought, Wow, I'm seeing onstage what a MGM musical would look like live. It was that good, and it was directed by Bob Fosse.
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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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Physical rehab is often very, very hard work.
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When I started doing magic as a kid, my parents had no problem.
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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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If I was gay, why would I hide it?
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What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.
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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.
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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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