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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.
David Copperfield
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David Copperfield
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: September 16
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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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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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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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Like in comedy, you know the names of the people who steal things that others work really hard on. It really sucks. And, in magic, it's not just the hard work of getting the words and attitude and point of view right you're taking an actual invention, making something over three or four years, and somebody can just take it.
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For me to grow, I have to know about the foundation that came before.
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There is a safe spot within every tornado. My job is to find it.
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I think the negative reinforcement really helped me in my very beginnings.
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When the time came to say, Mom, I want to do this as a job, it was brutal. She was really against it. There were screaming matches. Some people are shut down by that and get defeated by it, and other people are empowered by the negativity. My father kind of encouraged me through that.
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When people say you can't do it - that it's impossible - never lose hope. Just because they couldn't doesn't mean you can't.
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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 was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.
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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.
David Copperfield
The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.
David Copperfield
I'm really happy that I had the foundations of knowing where I came from.
David Copperfield
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!
David Copperfield
[ Gil Cates] said, You've got a point of view with your magic. There's this comedy to it, there's drama. You're telling stories with magic.
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.
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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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When I started doing magic as a kid, my parents had no problem.
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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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