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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
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What you think is impossible in life actually is possible.
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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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If I was gay, why would I hide it?
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I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.
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My job is to make people dream. Of course, there's a lot of technical stuff behind the scenes and a lot of hard work behind it, but I get to watch people see the result of that hard work and feel that wonder and feel that discovery, all the time.
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I started as a ventriloquist, a very bad ventriloquist. And people saw my lips moving and it was ridiculous, so finally I decided I'd better change my occupation.
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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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I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create.
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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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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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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.
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I think the negative reinforcement really helped me in my very beginnings.
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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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For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.
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Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.
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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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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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It's okay for me to be gay, but God didn't make me that way.
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The real secret of magic lies in the performance.
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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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