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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
Important
Thing
Presentation
Magic

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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 discovered Musha Cay and the islands around it in the Exumas.
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Watching people react, watching people be inspired, be taken on a journey, forgetting their problems, looking ahead in their own lives to doing impossible things. That's kind of what drives me, gives me a sense of focus.
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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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I learned that there were two ways I could live my life: following my dreams or doing something else. Dreams aren't a matter of chance, but a matter of choice. When I dream, I believe I am rehearsing my future.
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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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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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I'm really happy that I had the foundations of knowing where I came from.
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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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Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.
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When you see me do a five-minute thing, there's been about two years of preparation behind that. You know, I find that's what it takes to really make it the level of quality I prefer.
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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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No, I think marriage is a great thing.
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There is a safe spot within every tornado. My job is to find 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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My mother was really loving and wonderful and tough as hell.
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Magic was a thing that, when I did it, it made all the kids go, Ah, that's cool.
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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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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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All the lawyers and the business stuff is work, but actually creating stuff isn't work. It's good effort. It's hard work. But, it's not work. It doesn't feel like work because the result is very rewarding.
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