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I will now make a scorpion appear in Osama bin Laden's pants

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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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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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My father kind of encouraged me through that. Exactly,[work] not as an actor, obviously, but as someone in show business that had some success. He told me to live the impossible. Live the impossible!
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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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I really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.
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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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The real secret of magic lies in the performance.
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I act like I'm 14, if you haven't figured that out yet.
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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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Physical rehab is often very, very hard work.
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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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I got to watch Frank Capra, in his eighties, in action. You read all the stories about Frank Capra fighting with the head of Columbia, Harry Cohn, It's my way or the highway. I got to watch that. He lambasted me, You cannot do this. You will fail. Finally, after another hour of conversation, I convinced him to help me write the speech.
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You have to learn certain skills to present magic.
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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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Magic was a thing that, when I did it, it made all the kids go, Ah, that's cool.
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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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Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.
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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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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'm inventing new principles. The audience has a point of view that no one can predict.
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But when I go off stage I don't have a deck of cards with me all the time.
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