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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 think the negative reinforcement really helped me in my very beginnings.
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Magic has been something I've been really good at since I was really young. The ability has always come easy to me, I'm not sure why.
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The most important thing is presentation.
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I act like I'm 14, if you haven't figured that out yet.
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No, I think marriage is a great thing.
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You have to learn certain skills to present magic.
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I was published in Tarbell Course in Magic when I was 12.
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Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.
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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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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'm really happy that I had the foundations of knowing where I came from.
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As I did more of that, I realized, Well, maybe I should do more magic.
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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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When I was a kid, people wanted to be an astronaut. Today, kids want to be famous, and that's totally the wrong approach. You have to have authenticity in what you're doing. You have to really care about the core message of what you're saying, and then everything else will fall into place.
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Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.
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I'm trying to change theater, in my own way - not just magic. I say that humbly, because I'm learning every single day. I do 15 shows a week, and every single audience I have is like a test screening for you, when you listen and go, Really? They laughed at that? All over the stage I have lines, written onstage, that I'm changing every single d
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I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and inspire.
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I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!
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I'm fascinated by the similarities and differences between comedians and magicians.
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The audience likes to be taken on new journeys.
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