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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.
David Copperfield
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David Copperfield
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: September 16
Entertainer
Film Actor
Hypnotist
Illusionist
Stunt Performer
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Metuchen
New Jersey
David Seth Kotkin
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I'm the luckiest man in the world - performing 500 shows a year and loving what I do - illusion IS my day to day life.
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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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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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I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.
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Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.
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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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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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The audience likes to be taken on new journeys.
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You can feel better about yourself in a very short period of time depending on the kind of magic that you are doing.
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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 really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.
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I will now make a scorpion appear in Osama bin Laden's pants
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