I'm the luckiest man in the world - performing 500 shows a year and loving what I do - illusion IS my… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
I could vanish the silk better than Ben Vereen - that was for sure. So I think maybe they said, "Okay, maybe… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
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… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
Science and technology were often used by [the magician of old], even before they came into the marketplace on a mass basis.… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
My show is constantly evolving... new tricks are added, old ones are dropped... so it stays fresh. But it's the randomly selected… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Actually, I started as a ventriloquist and my music teacher said, "Why don't you emcee the talent show?" My act was out… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
Later, when I was at Caesar's Palace, and [Joe and Gil Cates] were trying to get me to have opening acts for… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
All my TV shows are done live in front of audiences, and all the material I take on the road and travel… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
[Producers] took me to Chicago at 18 to star in a show that ran for almost a year. And that's when my… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
My father kind of encouraged me through that. Exactly,[work] not as an actor, obviously, but as someone in show business that had… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
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… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
A few years later, when I was still going to these meetings, I was also "second-acting" every Broadway show [walking in with… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
I wrote an op-ed piece in The New York Times about the amazing effect of shared wonder - how I have an… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
There is a safe spot within every tornado. My job is to find it. — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
I'm inventing new principles. The audience has a point of view that no one can predict. — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Magicians are the people who began to use film as an illusion on stage. — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear. — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
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