David Copperfield Quotes - Page 3

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• 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

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• 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

  David Copperfield “The Works of Charles Dickens”

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

  David Copperfield

  Gay, Way, Okay

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• 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

  School, Cutting, Light

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have always looked to movies and theatre for inspiration.

  David Copperfield

  Inspiration, Theatre

  Source: www.tampabayinformer.com

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• 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

  Inspirational, Winning, Race

  David Copperfield “The Works of Charles Dickens”

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

  David Copperfield

  Needs, Form, Working Really Hard

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• When I am on the road and heading to my next venue, I think about my audience.

  David Copperfield

  Thinking, Next, Venues

  Source: www.tampabayinformer.com

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

  David Copperfield

  Broadway, Starting, Shows

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• 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

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• No, I think marriage is a great thing.

  David Copperfield

  Thinking, Great Things

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• I'm fascinated by the similarities and differences between comedians and magicians.

  David Copperfield

  Differences, Comedian, Magician

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Let sleeping dogs lie — who wants to rouse 'em?

  David Copperfield

  Dog, Lying, Sleep

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• Science and technology were often used by [the magician of old], even before they came into the marketplace on a mass basis. For example, prior to the moving picture going into theatre, magicians were using the technique of images in motion as illusions in their shows. At that time the process was so new, an audience perceived it as magic. Also in the early stages of holograms magicians would use these images to baffle and mystify their fans. Hence, you always need to stay one step ahead of the technology game to "WOW" the audience.

  David Copperfield

  Moving, Technology, Games

  Source: www.tampabayinformer.com

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• 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

  Magic, Houdini, Bunch

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Girl, Class, Magic

  Source: www.tampabayinformer.com

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• I'm really happy that I had the foundations of knowing where I came from.

  David Copperfield

  Knowing, Foundation, Really Happy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Baby, Islands, Bird

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My mother was really loving and wonderful and tough as hell.

  David Copperfield

  Mother, Tough, Wonderful

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Performing my show is something I constantly think about.

  David Copperfield

  Thinking, Performing, Shows

  Source: www.tampabayinformer.com

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• My father wanted to be an actor, dreamed about being an actor, but he gave it up because my mom and his family told him, "You're never going to make it; it's too tough out there."

  David Copperfield

  Mom, Father, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Dream, Medicine, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wrote an op-ed piece in The New York Times about the amazing effect of shared wonder - how I have an audience filled with people who you'd think would hate each other, people from every religious category, all at the same show at the same time. And it's an amazing phenomenon to watch this shared sense of wonder, where these people who really don't like each other - for good and bad reasons, reasons that make sense and that don't make sense - are in the same room, experiencing this unification.

  David Copperfield

  Religious, New York, Hate

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Running, Parent, Three

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Mom, Tough, Ends

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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