David Copperfield Quotes About Magic

Quotes about: Magic

• The real secret of magic lies in the performance.

  David Copperfield

  Real, Lying, Magic

  "The Dollar Meltdown: Surviving the Coming Currency Crisis with Gold, Oil, and Other Unconventional Investments" by Charles Goyette, (Ch. 6), 2009.

• The most important thing is presentation.

  David Copperfield

  Magic, Important, Presentation

• 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

  Moving, Magic, Special

• Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

  David Copperfield

  Opportunity, Magic, Wonder

• Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.

  David Copperfield

  Magic, Wonder, Human Nature

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

  David Copperfield

  Magic, Scorpions, Pants

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

  David Copperfield

  Magic, Secret, Ethics

  "'King of Magic' Copperfield brings interactive show to PAC". Interview with Ryan Chartrand, mustangnews.net. February 27, 2007.

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

  David Copperfield

  Technology, Hands, Magic

• 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

  Book, Kids, Years

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

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  Magic, Tvs, Stage

• You have to learn certain skills to present magic.

  David Copperfield

  Skills, Magic, Certain

• There was a place in New York called Tannen's Magic. It still exists. But back in the day, it was really fantastic. You'd go into the old Wurlitzer Building, take the elevator to the 13th floor, which was labeled 14, because of bad luck, the elevator would open, and you'd be in heaven. It was all of these guys doing magic stuff with props. It's kind of gone now, that experience, the brick-and-mortar magic shop, but you really felt like you'd landed in the most amazing place in the world.

  David Copperfield

  New York, Bricks And Mortar, Guy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I was 16 at the time, and I came backstage and started hanging out with them. I said, "Well, maybe you can 'vanish' the silk this way." The opening was a black stage while the "Magic to Do" song started playing. All you saw were hands, lit by Jules Fisher, and then Ben Vereen would appear beyond the hands, and at the end of the scene he would vanish a silk. The spotlight would hit a red spot on the floor where you'd see the silk on the floor. He'd pull the silk out of the floor and it became the entire set coming out of the floor.

  David Copperfield

  Song, Hands, Black

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Technology, Gentleman, Magic

  "David Copperfield Talks NOW YOU SEE ME on Blu-ray/DVD, His Collaboration on the Film, Drawing Inspiration from Cinema, and Being a Good Showman". Interview with Christina Raddish, collider.com. September 8, 2013.

• 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

• 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

  Kids, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Like in comedy, you know the names of the people who steal things that others work really hard on. It really sucks. And, in magic, it's not just the hard work of getting the words and attitude and point of view right; you're taking an actual invention, making something over three or four years, and somebody can just take it.

  David Copperfield

  Attitude, Hard Work, Views

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Sacrifice, Winning, Careers

  "David Copperfield Talks NOW YOU SEE ME on Blu-ray/DVD, His Collaboration on the Film, Drawing Inspiration from Cinema, and Being a Good Showman". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 8, 2013.

• 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

• 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

  Fire, Years, Magic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Magic, Trying, Tests

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  David Copperfield

  Lying, Thinking, Magic

• [ 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

  Drama, Views, Magic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I really wanted to succeed. I wanted to be accepted. I read every magic book that I possibly could, studied every move, and by the time I was 12, they really accepted me, they embraced me.

  David Copperfield

  Moving, Book, Magic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Girlfriend, Airplane, Simple

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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