Magic Quotes by David Copperfield

Magic is my paint.

— David Copperfield

Magic really helped me.

— David Copperfield

When I started doing magic as a kid, my parents had no problem.

— David Copperfield

The most important thing is presentation.

— David Copperfield

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.

— David Copperfield

I was teaching magic at NYU when I was 16.

— David Copperfield

The real secret of magic lies in the performance.

— David Copperfield

You have to learn certain skills to present magic.

— David Copperfield

Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.

— David Copperfield

I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.

— David Copperfield

You can feel better about yourself in a very short period of time depending on the kind of magic that you are…

— David Copperfield

Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.

— 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…

— David Copperfield

Magic has been something I've been really good at since I was really young. The ability has always come easy to me,…

— David Copperfield

I invented magic stuff; it came very easily. Now, I sucked at everything else, but I was good at magic as a…

— David Copperfield

In magic, it takes two or three years for me to create a 5-minute illusion for me to get it to the…

— David Copperfield

As I did more of that, I realized, "Well, maybe I should do more magic."

— David Copperfield

What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.

— David Copperfield

Magic is the only profession where it's easy to lie about your talent. If you do a trick and you can learn…

— David Copperfield

There were really a bunch of old, old magic hobbyists at the time, some of them who actually had known [Harry] Houdini.…

— David Copperfield

I really wanted to succeed. I wanted to be accepted. I read every magic book that I possibly could, studied every move,…

— David Copperfield

To make magic credible on screen is always very difficult. The story is the most important thing. That is what should win.…

— David Copperfield

For me, I was watching Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Orson Welles, Victor Fleming movies, and I said, "I want to tell stories…

— David Copperfield

Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and…

— David Copperfield

Magic is used in espionage, all the time, for clandestine things. I've got a whole library from a gentleman who was hired…

— David Copperfield

Pippin had an opening number called "Magic to Do," and Jules Fisher, the brilliant lighting designer lit it. Tony Walton did all…

— David Copperfield

I had a point of view, which was different. I looked at magic as theater, as storytelling, and I tried to have…

— David Copperfield

There was a place in New York called Tannen's Magic. It still exists. But back in the day, it was really fantastic.…

— David Copperfield

I was 16 at the time, and I came backstage and started hanging out with them. I said, "Well, maybe you can…

— David Copperfield

From the very beginning, I studied acting, directing, lighting, dance and movement. I didn't rely on just the magic to take place.…

— David Copperfield

Like in comedy, you know the names of the people who steal things that others work really hard on. It really sucks.…

— David Copperfield

I'm trying to change theater, in my own way - not just magic. I say that humbly, because I'm learning every single…

— David Copperfield

Everyone was talking about having airplanes disappear. And I said, "Wait, wait, wait. That's what you like? I'd tell you a story…

— David Copperfield

There was a guy named Ed Mishell. He was this grandfatherly guy who did all the illustrations for the catalogs and reviewed…

— David Copperfield

I was published in Tarbell Course in Magic when I was 12.

— David Copperfield

I fell in love with magic acts and bridged into that.

— David Copperfield

It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.

— David Copperfield

I will now make a scorpion appear in Osama bin Laden's pants

— David Copperfield

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

— David Copperfield

I have always been interested in pushing magic forward.

— David Copperfield