Quotes By David Copperfield

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

But Vegas is really my first home.

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

We all possess the need to dream.

The audiences are what keep me enthusiastic.

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

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

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

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