David Copperfield Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

The real secret of magic lies in the performance.

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.

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.

If I was gay, why would I hide it?

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

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

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

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

The audience likes to be taken on new journeys.

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.

Marriage is like a formality for me.

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.

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.

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

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

Never stop listening to your audience.

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

You have to learn certain skills to present magic.

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

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.

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

I've been to council estates where there are demonstrations against paedophiles. You stand there, making sure things don't get too out of hand, thinking, 'You're the same parents who sentence your kids to a life of crap jobs, no personal stability, no family life, no support in their learning, no boundaries and no rules.

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

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

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.

Magic is my paint.

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

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.

No, I think marriage is a great thing.

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.

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

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.

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

The most important thing is presentation.

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

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

Magic really helped me.

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.

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

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

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

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

Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.

The audiences are what keep me enthusiastic.

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.