David Copperfield Quotes - Page 5

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• 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

  Brother, Taken, Kids

  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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• 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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• [ 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

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• Magic was a thing that, when I did it, it made all the kids go, "Ah, that's cool."

  David Copperfield

  Kids, Magic, Made

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

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  Dark, Guy, Said

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Later, when I was at Caesar's Palace, and [Joe and Gil Cates] were trying to get me to have opening acts for the show, they gave me a list of people, and Rosie O'Donnell was one of them. I said, "I don't really need any opening acts. I have funny stuff in the show, and I do a lot of comedy and stuff."

  David Copperfield

  People, Having Fun, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm a horrible karaoke singer.

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  Karaoke, Singers, Horrible

  Source: www.bicyclecards.com

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• 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.

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  Moving, People, Occupation

  Source: www.bicyclecards.com

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• 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.

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  Kids, Numbers, Magic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My dreams are my dress rehearsals for my future.

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  Dream, Future, Dresses

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• I have always been interested in pushing magic forward.

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  Magic, Pushing

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• Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.

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  Magic, Modern, Figures

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• I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.

  David Copperfield

  Magic, Secret, Revealing

  "'King of Magic' Copperfield brings interactive show to PAC". Mustang Daily Q&A, mustangnews.net. February 27, 2007.

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• If I was gay, why would I hide it?

  David Copperfield

  Gay, Ifs

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

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  Children, Parent, Only Child

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

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  Jobs, Safe, Tornadoes

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• 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.

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  Kindness, Father, Winning

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• 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.

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  Team, Knowing Everything, Challenges

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

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  Cards, Deck Of Cards, Stage

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• The audiences are what keep me enthusiastic.

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  Enthusiastic, Audience

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• Physical rehab is often very, very hard work.

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  Hard Work, Rehab, Hard

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

  David Copperfield

  Islands

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• 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.

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  Uncles, Fire, Years

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• Never stop listening to your audience.

  David Copperfield

  Listening, Audience

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