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There was an old brochure for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts with a quote from Robert Redford or someone, that said, You're only as good as you dare to be bad.

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David Copperfield
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: September 16
Entertainer
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Metuchen
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David Seth Kotkin
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Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.
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I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.
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Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!
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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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For me to grow, I have to know about the foundation that came before.
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When I was a kid, people wanted to be an astronaut. Today, kids want to be famous, and that's totally the wrong approach. You have to have authenticity in what you're doing. You have to really care about the core message of what you're saying, and then everything else will fall into place.
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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 act like I'm 14, if you haven't figured that out yet.
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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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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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I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and inspire.
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As I did more of that, I realized, Well, maybe I should do more magic.
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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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All of the [Bob] Fosse-esque movements and point of view informed years and years of what I would do.
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My mother was really loving and wonderful and tough as hell.
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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 was published in Tarbell Course in Magic when I was 12.
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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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Everyone was talking about having airplanes disappear. And I said, Wait, wait, wait. That's what you like? I'd tell you a story about something like my girlfriend leaving me, and the magic was really hard. The airplane thing was comparatively easy, and people liked that thing? I realized at that moment, the power of the simple idea.
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