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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
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New Jersey
David Seth Kotkin
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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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For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.
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It's okay for me to be gay, but God didn't make me that way.
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I'm inventing new principles. The audience has a point of view that no one can predict.
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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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I see people's need to dream, people's need to escape - you see it! That's why people come to comedy shows, that's why they come to your movies ... We're so needed in this world. Not as much as medicine , but to dream for a while.
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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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For me to grow, I have to know about the foundation that came before.
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The audience likes to be taken on new journeys.
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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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Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.
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The real secret of magic lies in the performance.
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As I did more of that, I realized, Well, maybe I should do more magic.
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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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Everything that you'd see on The Ed Sullivan Show was at the Tannen's Magic. You'd think that if you could afford a trick like Doc Nixon's Dove Vanish, then you could be on The Ed Sullivan Show as an 8-year-old kid.
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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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Tommy Chong connects to the pipe a lot.
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If I was gay, why would I hide it?
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What you think is impossible in life actually is possible.
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