Quotes By David Copperfield

Physical rehab is often very, very hard work.

Magic is my paint.

No, I think marriage is a great thing.

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

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.

If I was gay, why would I hide it?

The audience likes to be taken on new journeys.

I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.

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

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

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

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

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

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

I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.

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

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!

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

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.

You have to learn certain skills to present magic.

We all possess the need to dream.

The audiences are what keep me enthusiastic.

But Vegas is really my first home.

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

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.

Never stop listening to your audience.

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

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

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