David Copperfield famous quotes

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.
-- David Copperfield

#Motivational #Wish #Important

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

#People #Use #Film

The real secret of magic lies in the performance.
-- David Copperfield

#Real #Lying #Magic

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.
-- David Copperfield

#Dream #Jobs #Hard Work

I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and inspire.
-- David Copperfield

#Dream #Moving #People

All the lawyers and the business stuff is work, but actually creating stuff isn't work. It's good effort. It's hard work. But, it's not work. It doesn't feel like work because the result is very rewarding.
-- David Copperfield

#Hard Work #Creating #Effort

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.
-- David Copperfield

#Moving #Magic #Special

In movies, storytelling and every single art form, we're creating wonder. You're starting with a blank page and creating something that doesn't exist.
-- David Copperfield

#Art #Creating #Pages

The most important thing is presentation.
-- David Copperfield

#Magic #Important

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.
-- David Copperfield

#Thinking #Magic #Acting

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

#Rain #People #Waiting

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.
-- David Copperfield

#Lying #Thinking #Magic

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.
-- David Copperfield

#Opportunity #Wonder #Magician

To make magic credible on screen is always very difficult. The story is the most important thing. That is what should win. If sacrifices or compromises are made, it's usually for story. Story in magic is very, very important to me. That's what I've really championed through my career.
-- David Copperfield

#Sacrifice #Winning #Careers

We all possess the need to dream.
-- David Copperfield

#Dream #Needs

Magic is used in espionage, all the time, for clandestine things. I've got a whole library from a gentleman who was hired by the CIA to create magic technology for the use of anti-terrorism.
-- David Copperfield

#Technology #Gentleman #Magic

Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.
-- David Copperfield

#Letting Go #Dream #Would Be

Normally, I do magic on the stage. But I can make magic credible and resonate through a TV screen.
-- David Copperfield

#Magic #Tvs #Stage

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.
-- David Copperfield

#Fall #Kids #People

No, I think marriage is a great thing.
-- David Copperfield

#Thinking #Great Things

The audiences are what keep me enthusiastic.
-- David Copperfield

#Enthusiastic #Audience

You have to learn certain skills to present magic.
-- David Copperfield

#Skills #Magic #Certain

The audience likes to be taken on new journeys.
-- David Copperfield

#Taken #Journey #Likes

The first trick I bought at Macy's was a little wooden board where a quarter would appear and disappear.
-- David Copperfield

#Boards #Littles #Firsts

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.
-- David Copperfield

#Magic #Easy #Young

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.
-- David Copperfield

#Uncles #Fire #Years

The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.
-- David Copperfield

#Keys #Illusion #Plan B

Never stop listening to your audience.
-- David Copperfield

#Listening #Audience

You can feel better about yourself in a very short period of time depending on the kind of magic that you are doing.
-- David Copperfield

#Feel Better #Magic #Kind

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

#Emotional #Giving #Magic

Marriage is like a formality for me.
-- David Copperfield

Physical rehab is often very, very hard work.
-- David Copperfield

#Hard Work #Rehab

I was a captive and a slave. I loved Dora Spenlow to distraction! She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I dont know what she was--anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted.
-- David Copperfield

#Saws #Fairy #Slave

I learned that there were two ways I could live my life: following my dreams or doing something else. Dreams aren't a matter of chance, but a matter of choice. When I dream, I believe I am rehearsing my future.
-- David Copperfield

#Encouraging #Dream #Believe

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.
-- David Copperfield

#Mean #Positivity #People

I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!
-- David Copperfield

#Secret #Youth #Fountain

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

#Winning #Race #Needs

Let sleeping dogs lie — who wants to rouse 'em?
-- David Copperfield

#Dog #Lying #Sleep

My dreams are my dress rehearsals for my future.
-- David Copperfield

#Dream #Future #Dresses

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.
-- David Copperfield

#Relief #Comic #Tricks

When you're a guy and meet a girl the first time, you do whatever it takes.
-- David Copperfield

#Girl #Guy #Firsts

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

#Gay #Way #Okay

I really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.
-- David Copperfield

#Broadway #Starting #Shows

I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create.
-- David Copperfield

#Years #Cameras #Seven

Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.
-- David Copperfield

#Wonder #Human Nature

For me to grow, I have to know about the foundation that came before.
-- David Copperfield

#Foundation #Grows

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.
-- David Copperfield

#Magic #Modern #Figures

If I was gay, why would I hide it?
-- David Copperfield

#Gay

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

#Technology #Hands #Magic

I need a form of escape even when I'm working really hard.
-- David Copperfield

#Needs #Form

I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.
-- David Copperfield

#Children #Parent #Only Child

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
-- David Copperfield

#Book #Kids #Years

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

#Magic #Secret #Ethics

I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.
-- David Copperfield

#Illusion #Resources #Method

I have always been interested in pushing magic forward.
-- David Copperfield

#Magic #Pushing

I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.
-- David Copperfield

#Magic #Secret #Revealing

I act like I'm 14, if you haven't figured that out yet.
-- David Copperfield

I discovered Musha Cay and the islands around it in the Exumas.
-- David Copperfield

#Islands

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

#Jobs #Safe #Tornadoes

No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still trying to live down.
-- David Copperfield

#Gay #Hair #Self

But Vegas is really my first home.
-- David Copperfield

#Home #Vegas #Firsts

The most important thing in life..
-- David Copperfield

#Important

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.
-- David Copperfield

#Team #Knowing #Challenges

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.
-- David Copperfield

#Kindness #Father #Winning

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.
-- David Copperfield

#Thinking #Magic #Able

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.
-- David Copperfield

#Years #Two #Magic

I brush my teeth with a Sonicare toothbrush before every show.
-- David Copperfield

#Teeth #Toothbrushes #Brushes

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

#Magic #Scorpions #Pants

But when I go off stage I don't have a deck of cards with me all the time.
-- David Copperfield

#Cards #Deck Of Cards #Stage

I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.
-- David Copperfield

#Friday #Believe #Night