David Copperfield Quotes - Page 6

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

I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.

I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.

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

When you're a guy and meet a girl the first time, you do whatever it takes.

I have always been interested in pushing magic forward.

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

I brush my teeth with a Sonicare toothbrush before every show.

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

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.

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

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.

All the lawyers and the business stuff is work, but actually creating stuff isn't work. It's good effort. It's hard work. But, it's not work. It doesn't feel like work because the result is very rewarding.

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

Magicians are the people who began to use film as an illusion on stage.