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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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I'm inventing new principles. The audience has a point of view that no one can predict.
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For me, I was watching Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Orson Welles, Victor Fleming movies, and I said, I want to tell stories like that. I want to move people like that. But I'm good at magic, so what am I going to do? So I started using magic for the right reasons - to get the girl.
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My dreams are my dress rehearsals for my future.
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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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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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I will now make a scorpion appear in Osama bin Laden's pants
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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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Magic is used in espionage, all the time, for clandestine things. I've got a whole library from a gentleman who was hired by the CIA to create magic technology for the use of anti-terrorism.
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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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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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I really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.
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I'm a horrible karaoke singer.
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You have to learn certain skills to present magic.
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No, I think marriage is a great thing.
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Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.
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Tommy Chong connects to the pipe a lot.
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I was published in Tarbell Course in Magic when I was 12.
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Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.
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I act like I'm 14, if you haven't figured that out yet.
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All my TV shows are done live in front of audiences, and all the material I take on the road and travel with them test them for hundreds and hundreds of shows before I shoot them for TV.
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