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I was published in Tarbell Course in Magic when I was 12.
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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I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and inspire.
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[ 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.
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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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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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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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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 was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.
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I'm really happy that I had the foundations of knowing where I came from.
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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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Normally, I do magic on the stage. But I can make magic credible and resonate through a TV screen.
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The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.
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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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The audience likes to be taken on new journeys.
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I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.
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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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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.
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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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Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.
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What you think is impossible in life actually is possible.
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