110+ David Copperfield Quotes On Magical, Entertaining And Illusionist

David Copperfield is an American magician, illusionist, and actor. He is known for his combination of storytelling and illusion, which has earned him 11 Emmy Awards and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He has been named the most commercially successful magician in history by Forbes. Following is our collection on famous quotes by David Copperfield on love, magical, entertaining.

Top 10 David Copperfield Quotes

1. No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still trying to live down.
2. The real secret of magic lies in the performance.
3. 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.
4. I brush my teeth with a Sonicare toothbrush before every show.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.
8. I love what I'm doing, I love creating new things.
9. Marriage is like a formality for me.
10. Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

David Copperfield Short Quotes

• Magicians are the people who began to use film as an illusion on stage.
• I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.
• The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.
• I need a form of escape even when I'm working really hard.
• I really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.
• Let sleeping dogs lie — who wants to rouse 'em?
• The audience likes to be taken on new journeys.
• What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.
• You have to learn certain skills to present magic.
• I'm inventing new principles. The audience has a point of view that no one can predict.

David Copperfield Quotes About Love

I'm the luckiest man in the world - performing 500 shows a year and loving what I do - illusion IS my day to day life. — 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

My mother was really loving and wonderful and tough as hell. — David Copperfield

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

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

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

David Copperfield Quotes About Magical

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

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

I have a bunch of islands in the Bahamas that we made into this amazing, magical place. And we have these birds; they're trained to do certain things on the island, which is awesome. These toucans had a baby toucan, and the baby toucan, every hour that you'd look at this toucan, he would change. — David Copperfield

I was published in Tarbell Course in Magic when I was 12. — David Copperfield

I was teaching magic at NYU when I was 16. — David Copperfield

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

Pippin had an opening number called "Magic to Do," and Jules Fisher, the brilliant lighting designer lit it. Tony Walton did all of the sets. As a kid I thought, "Wow, I'm seeing onstage what a MGM musical would look like live." It was that good, and it was directed by Bob Fosse. — 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 stories with magic." — David Copperfield

There were really a bunch of old, old magic hobbyists at the time, some of them who actually had known [Harry] Houdini. You had to be 14 to go to these meetings, and he snuck me in at 12. It was glorious. — David Copperfield

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

David Copperfield Quotes About Live

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

Watching people react, watching people be inspired, be taken on a journey, forgetting their problems, looking ahead in their own lives to doing impossible things. That's kind of what drives me, gives me a sense of focus. — David Copperfield

Later on, towards the end of their lives, I thanked her. I said, "Mom, you were really tough." She said, "I wasn't tough! I always believed in you." — David Copperfield

My father kind of encouraged me through that. Exactly,[work] not as an actor, obviously, but as someone in show business that had some success. He told me to live the impossible. "Live the impossible!" — David Copperfield

All my TV shows are done live in front of audiences, and all the material I take on the road and travel with them test them for hundreds and hundreds of shows before I shoot them for TV. — David Copperfield

David Copperfield Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

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

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

If you ever saw All That Jazz [1979], Bob Fosse was kind of raised dancing in strip joints and the whole era of burlesque, and that form ran his visual aesthetic, the pacing and rhythm of what he did. — David Copperfield

You lose your sense of wonder the more you learn, right? When you go to film school and learn about moviemaking, you go to see movies and then only see where the lights are, where the cuts are, watching it from a technical basis, nodding your head, "Oh, that was good." The feeling of surprise, the feeling of being transported is further away. — David Copperfield

There was another guy suggested. He was a tall and dark-haired and Jewy, and I said, "No, he's too close to me." It ended up being Jerry Seinfeld. — David Copperfield

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

When the time came to say, "Mom, I want to do this as a job," it was brutal. She was really against it. There were screaming matches. Some people are shut down by that and get defeated by it, and other people are empowered by the negativity. My father kind of encouraged me through that. — David Copperfield

For one of my specials, I said, "I'm going to make an airplane disappear." Okay! And the next day, everything went crazy - it was like breaking the internet before the internet. — David Copperfield

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

I got to watch Frank Capra, in his eighties, in action. You read all the stories about Frank Capra fighting with the head of Columbia, Harry Cohn, "It's my way or the highway." I got to watch that. He lambasted me, "You cannot do this. You will fail." Finally, after another hour of conversation, I convinced him to help me write the speech. — David Copperfield

For me, I was watching Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Orson Welles, Victor Fleming movies, and I said, "I want to tell stories like that. I want to move people like that. But I'm good at magic, so what am I going to do?" So I started using magic for the right reasons - to get the girl. — David Copperfield

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

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

I could vanish the silk better than Ben Vereen - that was for sure. So I think maybe they said, "Okay, maybe he has something to offer." Years pass and I get a bit of a career, and Ben Vereen ends up hosting one of my specials where I walked through the Great Wall of China. Things came full circle in kind of an ironic way, when you have that honor of people that have influenced you so much host your show. It's a huge experience in your life. — David Copperfield

Performing my show is something I constantly think about. — David Copperfield

Stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will'. — David Copperfield

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 trick like Doc Nixon's Dove Vanish, then you could be on The Ed Sullivan Show as an 8-year-old kid. — David Copperfield

I had a point of view, which was different. I looked at magic as theater, as storytelling, and I tried to have an approach that was different from what they were doing. "How can I move people and really get them to dream with a card trick, with coin magic, or even a piece of stage magic?" — David Copperfield

There was a guy named Ed Mishell. He was this grandfatherly guy who did all the illustrations for the catalogs and reviewed magic effects for the magic magazines, so all of the magic dealers would send him magic effects for free-it was a great deal. His basement was full of this stuff. He took me under his wing, and he would sneak me into the Society of American Magicians meetings in New York. It's the world's oldest magic organization. — David Copperfield

I discovered that magic tricks got me more attention from the girls in my class when I was nine - so a magician was born! — David Copperfield

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

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

When I am on the road and heading to my next venue, I think about my audience. — 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 by the CIA to create magic technology for the use of anti-terrorism. — David Copperfield

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

I'm a magician, not a singer. — David Copperfield

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

If I was gay, why would I hide it? — 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 day. I do 15 shows a week, and every single audience I have is like a test screening for you, when you listen and go, "Really? They laughed at that?" All over the stage I have lines, written onstage, that I'm changing every single day. — David Copperfield

[Producers] took me to Chicago at 18 to star in a show that ran for almost a year. And that's when my parents said, "Okay, I guess you can quit Fordham." Of course, when that show closed, as you can imagine, I came to New York and starved for years, but it's never an easy road. — David Copperfield

There was an old brochure for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts with a quote from Robert Redford or someone, that said, "You're only as good as you dare to be bad." — David Copperfield

I have always looked to movies and theatre for inspiration. — David Copperfield

Everyone understands cards and relates to it. They have them in their homes and in their hands, so it makes them very accessible. — David Copperfield

When you see me do a five-minute thing, there's been about two years of preparation behind that. You know, I find that's what it takes to really make it the level of quality I prefer. — 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 say, "Okay, I did the hardest thing I ever did. I'm prepared now. Now it's going to be easy." Of course it's not easy. — David Copperfield

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

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

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

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

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

I think the negative reinforcement really helped me in my very beginnings. — 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 like my girlfriend leaving me, and the magic was really hard. The airplane thing was comparatively easy, and people liked that thing?" I realized at that moment, the power of the simple idea. — David Copperfield

The audiences are what keep me enthusiastic. — David Copperfield

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

Usually, about two years of work go into each illusion, whether it's big or small. Two years of work on each five-minute piece. — David Copperfield

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

I started as a ventriloquist, a very bad ventriloquist. And people saw my lips moving and it was ridiculous, so finally I decided I'd better change my occupation. — David Copperfield

You'd go in the magic shop [as an 8-year-old ], and you'd walk up to the magicians doing stuff, and they'd turn their back on you. "Oh my gosh, I wish they would accept me." It really lit a fire. I really wanted to succeed. — 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 level I want. — David Copperfield

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

I'm a horrible karaoke singer. — David Copperfield

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

The more educated you get, the better shot you have to get it right, but if you're really trying something different, it's a challenge every time. — David Copperfield

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

The inspiration for my illusions comes from many places. Most often they come from my dreams, or an everyday occurrence in life. — David Copperfield

I've always taken a lot of cues from comedy minds. The guy that discovered me in the very beginning was Joseph Cates. Joe and Gil Cates were the Cates brothers. Gil produced the Oscars for many years. Joe produced a lot of comedy specials, Steve Martin specials, and he discovered me, this 18-year-old kid. — David Copperfield

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

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 why they come to your movies ... We're so needed in this world. Not as much as medicine , but to dream for a while. — David Copperfield

I'm a big fan of the Pixar movies, and Ed Catmull, who wrote a book about his experiences producing them, talks about how it takes three or four years to get it right. — David Copperfield

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

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

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

We all possess the need to dream. — David Copperfield

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

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

Tommy Chong connects to the pipe a lot. — David Copperfield

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

To make [parents] happy, I went to Fordham University for three weeks, while at the same time running ads in Variety, "magician-actor David Copperfield." — David Copperfield

Never stop listening to your audience. — David Copperfield

Life Lessons by David Copperfield

1. David Copperfield teaches us to never give up on our dreams, no matter how difficult the journey may be. He has shown us the power of hard work and dedication to achieving success.
2. Through his work, David Copperfield has also demonstrated the importance of staying true to yourself and never compromising your values, even when faced with adversity.
3. Finally, Copperfield's work has shown us the power of believing in yourself and having faith that you can achieve anything if you put in the effort and dedication.