Quotes by David Copperfield

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.”

Drama

Magic

Views

[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.

New York

Stars

Years

A few years later, when I was still going to these meetings, I was also “second-acting” every Broadway show [walking in with the crowd after intermission]. I snuck in to see Grease with John Travolta in kind of a secondary part and Adrienne Barbeau playing Rizzo, into Pippin, hung out with Ben Vereen and Bob Fosse. It was an amazing time for a teenager.

Grease

Teenager

Years

Actually, I started as a ventriloquist and my music teacher said, “Why don’t you emcee the talent show?” My act was out of the back of Boys’ Life magazine-they had a whole series of jokes in the back of Boys’ Life magazine for Boy Scouts. So my act was jokes with my ventriloquist figure, and it was really bad, but I walked into the classroom afterward and the kids went, “Wow, you’re cool.” I wasn’t cool at all, but I thought, “Well, this is a pretty good deal.”

Boys

Kids

Teacher

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.

Done

Tests

Tv Shows

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.

Creating

Effort

Hard Work

As I did more of that, I realized, “Well, maybe I should do more magic.”

Magic

Should

Wells

Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.

Human Nature

Magic

Wonder

But Vegas is really my first home.

Firsts

Home

Vegas

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.

Figures

Magic

Modern

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Airplane

Audience

Book

Boys

Bricks And Mortar

Broadway

Brother

Bunch

Cameras

Cards

Careers

Challenges

Children

Comic

Courses

Crazy

Creating

Creating New Things

Cutting

Dark

Different

Done

Drama

Dream

Dresses

Easy

Effort

Emotional

Encouraging

Ends

Enthusiastic

Ethics

Fairy

Father

Feel Better

Fighting

Figures

Film

Fire

Firsts

Formality

Foundation

Fountain

Fun

Future

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Quotes by David Copperfield

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.”

[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.

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.

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.

As I did more of that, I realized, “Well, maybe I should do more magic.”

Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.

But Vegas is really my first home.

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.

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