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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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The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.
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Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.
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I'm a horrible karaoke singer.
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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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Normally, I do magic on the stage. But I can make magic credible and resonate through a TV screen.
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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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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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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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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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I love creating new things. It's kind of my job, it's what I do, and I really have fun with it.
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The real secret of magic lies in the performance.
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Like in comedy, you know the names of the people who steal things that others work really hard on. It really sucks. And, in magic, it's not just the hard work of getting the words and attitude and point of view right you're taking an actual invention, making something over three or four years, and somebody can just take it.
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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'm fascinated by the similarities and differences between comedians and magicians.
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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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From the very beginning, I studied acting, directing, lighting, dance and movement. I didn't rely on just the magic to take place. It's a shame that a lot of magicians just rely on the trick itself and they have no other abilities. They get away with the wonder factor, and I don't think that's enough. It's great, but it's not enough.
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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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For one of my specials, I said, I'm going to make an airplane disappear. Okay! And the next day, everything went crazy - it was like breaking the internet before the internet.
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You have to learn certain skills to present magic.
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If I was gay, why would I hide it?
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