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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.
David Copperfield
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David Copperfield
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: September 16
Entertainer
Film Actor
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Metuchen
New Jersey
David Seth Kotkin
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More quotes by David Copperfield
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
What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.
David Copperfield
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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For me to grow, I have to know about the foundation that came before.
David Copperfield
What you think is impossible in life actually is possible.
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My mother was really loving and wonderful and tough as hell.
David Copperfield
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
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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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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All of the [Bob] Fosse-esque movements and point of view informed years and years of what I would do.
David Copperfield
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!
David Copperfield
Normally, I do magic on the stage. But I can make magic credible and resonate through a TV screen.
David Copperfield
I see people's need to dream, people's need to escape - you see it! That's why people come to comedy shows, that's why they come to your movies ... We're so needed in this world. Not as much as medicine , but to dream for a while.
David Copperfield
Tommy Chong connects to the pipe a lot.
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I think the negative reinforcement really helped me in my very beginnings.
David Copperfield
No, I think marriage is a great thing.
David Copperfield
I act like I'm 14, if you haven't figured that out yet.
David Copperfield
I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.
David Copperfield
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.
David Copperfield
[ Gil Cates] said, You've got a point of view with your magic. There's this comedy to it, there's drama. You're telling stories with magic.
David Copperfield
