Top 144 Quotes & Sayings by David Copperfield
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American entertainer David Copperfield.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
There is a safe spot within every tornado. My job is to find it.
If I was gay, why would I hide it?
Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books.
The real secret of magic lies in the performance.
I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions.
You have to learn certain skills to present magic.
Magic has been something I've been really good at since I was really young. The ability has always come easy to me, I'm not sure why.
I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.
I discovered Musha Cay and the islands around it in the Exumas.
I really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.
The first trick I bought at Macy's was a little wooden board where a quarter would appear and disappear.
Marriage is like a formality for me.
You can feel better about yourself in a very short period of time depending on the kind of magic that you are doing.
The audiences are what keep me enthusiastic.
It's really hard to think of one kind of magic as a favorite. I've been really fortunate in that I've been able to perform such a diverse range of things.
No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still trying to live down.
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.
But Vegas is really my first home.
I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create.
The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.
But when I go off stage I don't have a deck of cards with me all the time.
It's okay for me to be gay, but God didn't make me that way.
I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!
I need a form of escape even when I'm working really hard.
I act like I'm 14, if you haven't figured that out yet.
When you're a guy and meet a girl the first time, you do whatever it takes.
Never stop listening to your audience.
It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.
Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.
In magic, it takes two or three years for me to create a 5-minute illusion for me to get it to the level I want.
Physical rehab is often very, very hard work.
What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.
Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.
Magic is my paint.
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.
Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.
I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and inspire.
I brush my teeth with a Sonicare toothbrush before every show.
Magic really helped me.
I have always been interested in pushing magic forward.
We all possess the need to dream.
Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.
I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.
My show is constantly evolving... new tricks are added, old ones are dropped... so it stays fresh. But it's the randomly selected participants from the audience that make it fresh and provide some of the best comic relief.
I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.
The audience likes to be taken on new journeys.
I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.
For me to grow, I have to know about the foundation that came before.
No, I think marriage is a great thing.
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.
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.
I think the negative reinforcement really helped me in my very beginnings.
Magic is the only profession where it's easy to lie about your talent. If you do a trick and you can learn it very quickly, you can fool somebody into thinking you're a great magician.
Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.
What you think is impossible in life actually is possible.
Stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will'.
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.
The most important thing is presentation.
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.
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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