David Copperfield
David Copperfield
David Copperfield, is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens. The novel's full title is, The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery. It was first published as a serial in 1849–50, and as a book in 1850. Many elements of the novel follow events in Dickens' own life, and it is often considered as his veiled autobiography. It was Dickens' favorite among his own novels. In the preface to the 1867 edition, Dickens...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMagician
Date of Birth16 September 1956
CityMetuchen, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
David Copperfield quotes about
The first trick I bought at Macy's was a little wooden board where a quarter would appear and disappear.
The audiences are what keep me enthusiastic.
Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.
What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.
Never stop listening to your audience.
It's okay for me to be gay, but God didn't make me that way.
I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.
I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.
If I was gay, why would I hide it?
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.
I brush my teeth with a Sonicare toothbrush before every show.
I have always been interested in pushing magic forward.
My dreams are my dress rehearsals for my future.
My job is to make people dream. Of course, there's a lot of technical stuff behind the scenes and a lot of hard work behind it, but I get to watch people see the result of that hard work and feel that wonder and feel that discovery, all the time.