Running Quotes by David Copperfield

There is a safe spot within every tornado. My job is to find it.

— David Copperfield

I'm inventing new principles. The audience has a point of view that no one can predict.

— David Copperfield

I love creating new things. It's kind of my job, it's what I do, and I really have fun with it.

— 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

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…

— David Copperfield

For me, it's about risk taking, taking things in new directions. Because every single time, no matter how much you learn, you can never…

— David Copperfield

It's okay for me to be gay, but God didn't make me that way.

— 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

Magicians are the people who began to use film as an illusion on stage.

— David Copperfield

I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.

— David Copperfield

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

— David Copperfield