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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
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Illusionist
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Metuchen
New Jersey
David Seth Kotkin
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Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.
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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 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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But when I go off stage I don't have a deck of cards with me all the time.
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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 find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.
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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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When you see me do a five-minute thing, there's been about two years of preparation behind that. You know, I find that's what it takes to really make it the level of quality I prefer.
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I'm a horrible karaoke singer.
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What you think is impossible in life actually is possible.
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You lose your sense of wonder the more you learn, right? When you go to film school and learn about moviemaking, you go to see movies and then only see where the lights are, where the cuts are, watching it from a technical basis, nodding your head, Oh, that was good. The feeling of surprise, the feeling of being transported is further away.
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The audience likes to be taken on new journeys.
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I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.
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I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.
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[ Gil Cates] said, You've got a point of view with your magic. There's this comedy to it, there's drama. You're telling stories with magic.
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