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David Copperfield
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: September 16
Entertainer
Film Actor
Hypnotist
Illusionist
Stunt Performer
Writer
Metuchen
New Jersey
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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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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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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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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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Physical rehab is often very, very hard work.
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All of the [Bob] Fosse-esque movements and point of view informed years and years of what I would do.
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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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But when I go off stage I don't have a deck of cards with me all the time.
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I'm a horrible karaoke singer.
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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 audience likes to be taken on new journeys.
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Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.
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It's okay for me to be gay, but God didn't make me that way.
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My dreams are my dress rehearsals for my future.
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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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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 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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I see people's need to dream, people's need to escape - you see it! That's why people come to comedy shows, that's why they come to your movies ... We're so needed in this world. Not as much as medicine , but to dream for a while.
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My father kind of encouraged me through that. Exactly,[work] not as an actor, obviously, but as someone in show business that had some success. He told me to live the impossible. Live the impossible!
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I'm fascinated by the similarities and differences between comedians and magicians.
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