David Copperfield Quotes

Magic really helped me.

Stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will'.

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.

Marriage is like a formality for me.

My dreams are my dress rehearsals for my future.

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

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

The most important thing is presentation.

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

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

The audiences are what keep me enthusiastic.

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 have always been interested in pushing magic forward.

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

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

Physical rehab is often very, very hard work.

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

But Vegas is really my first home.

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.

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

The audience likes to be taken on new journeys.

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

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

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

Never stop listening to your audience.

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.

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

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

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

The real secret of magic lies in the performance.

Magic is my paint.

Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.

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

I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If I was gay, why would I hide it?

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

You have to learn certain skills to present magic.

We all possess the need to dream.

No, I think marriage is a great thing.

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

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

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

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.