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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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Luckiest
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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 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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Physical rehab is often very, very hard work.
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I discovered Musha Cay and the islands around it in the Exumas.
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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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Tommy Chong connects to the pipe a lot.
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No, I think marriage is a great thing.
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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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It wasn't just about doing tricks. It's about taking an audience to another place, a special place, so they can really suspend their disbelief. Its about amazing the audience as well as moving them.
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Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.
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Watching people react, watching people be inspired, be taken on a journey, forgetting their problems, looking ahead in their own lives to doing impossible things. That's kind of what drives me, gives me a sense of focus.
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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 think the negative reinforcement really helped me in my very beginnings.
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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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There is a safe spot within every tornado. My job is to find it.
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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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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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The audience likes to be taken on new journeys.
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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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