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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.

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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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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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'm inventing new principles. The audience has a point of view that no one can predict.
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If I was gay, why would I hide it?
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The most important thing is presentation.
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I will now make a scorpion appear in Osama bin Laden's pants
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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 really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.
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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.
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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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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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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'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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There is a safe spot within every tornado. My job is to find it.
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I'm fascinated by the similarities and differences between comedians and magicians.
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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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I have a bunch of islands in the Bahamas that we made into this amazing, magical place. And we have these birds they're trained to do certain things on the island, which is awesome. These toucans had a baby toucan, and the baby toucan, every hour that you'd look at this toucan, he would change.
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You have to learn certain skills to present 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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