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I'm fascinated by the similarities and differences between comedians and magicians.

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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My uncle's house burned down when I was 6 years old. We got out safely. But ever since, I've had a nightmare of dying in a fire.
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As I did more of that, I realized, Well, maybe I should do more magic.
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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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I was published in Tarbell Course in Magic when I was 12.
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For me to grow, I have to know about the foundation that came before.
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Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.
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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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My job is to make people dream. Of course, there's a lot of technical stuff behind the scenes and a lot of hard work behind it, but I get to watch people see the result of that hard work and feel that wonder and feel that discovery, all the time.
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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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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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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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Normally, I do magic on the stage. But I can make magic credible and resonate through a TV screen.
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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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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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Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.
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Magic was a thing that, when I did it, it made all the kids go, Ah, that's cool.
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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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I'm really happy that I had the foundations of knowing where I came from.
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There is a safe spot within every tornado. My job is to find it.
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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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