Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Reading [Judd Apatow] book, about his background, I think there's a great similarity. What gives him the fire to work hard? He worked hard, researching the comedians of the time, what touched him about it.
David Copperfield
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
David Copperfield
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: September 16
Entertainer
Film Actor
Hypnotist
Illusionist
Stunt Performer
Writer
Metuchen
New Jersey
David Seth Kotkin
Work
Worked
Judd
Time
Gives
Researching
Think
Fire
Similarity
Thinking
Reading
Comedians
Book
Background
Hard
Backgrounds
Giving
Comedian
Great
Touched
More quotes by David Copperfield
But when I go off stage I don't have a deck of cards with me all the time.
David Copperfield
The most important thing is presentation.
David Copperfield
Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.
David Copperfield
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!
David Copperfield
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.
David Copperfield
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.
David Copperfield
When I started doing magic as a kid, my parents had no problem.
David Copperfield
I invented magic stuff it came very easily. Now, I sucked at everything else, but I was good at magic as a kid.
David Copperfield
I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create.
David Copperfield
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.
David Copperfield
I had a point of view, which was different. I looked at magic as theater, as storytelling, and I tried to have an approach that was different from what they were doing. How can I move people and really get them to dream with a card trick, with coin magic, or even a piece of stage magic?
David Copperfield
Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.
David Copperfield
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.
David Copperfield
Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.
David Copperfield
I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!
David Copperfield
I'm a horrible karaoke singer.
David Copperfield
Tommy Chong connects to the pipe a lot.
David Copperfield
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.
David Copperfield
What you think is impossible in life actually is possible.
David Copperfield
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.
David Copperfield
