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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.

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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Normally, I do magic on the stage. But I can make magic credible and resonate through a TV screen.
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I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.
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As I did more of that, I realized, Well, maybe I should do more magic.
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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'm a horrible karaoke singer.
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My mother was really loving and wonderful and tough as hell.
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I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create.
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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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Physical rehab is often very, very hard work.
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There were really a bunch of old, old magic hobbyists at the time, some of them who actually had known [Harry] Houdini. You had to be 14 to go to these meetings, and he snuck me in at 12. It was glorious.
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I started as a ventriloquist, a very bad ventriloquist. And people saw my lips moving and it was ridiculous, so finally I decided I'd better change my occupation.
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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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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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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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All the lawyers and the business stuff is work, but actually creating stuff isn't work. It's good effort. It's hard work. But, it's not work. It doesn't feel like work because the result is very rewarding.
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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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All of the [Bob] Fosse-esque movements and point of view informed years and years of what I would do.
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I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.
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