David Copperfield Magic Quotations

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

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.

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.

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.

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

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

Magic has been something I've been really good at since I was really young. The ability has always come easy to me, I'm not sure why.

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

I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.

I have always been interested in pushing magic forward.

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

It's really hard to think of one kind of magic as a favorite. I've been really fortunate in that I've been able to perform such a diverse range of things.

From the very beginning, I studied acting, directing, lighting, dance and movement. I didn't rely on just the magic to take place. It's a shame that a lot of magicians just rely on the trick itself and they have no other abilities. They get away with the wonder factor, and I don't think that's enough. It's great, but it's not enough.

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

You have to learn certain skills to present magic.

It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.

Magic is the only profession where it's easy to lie about your talent. If you do a trick and you can learn it very quickly, you can fool somebody into thinking you're a great magician.

It wasn't just about doing tricks. It's about taking an audience to another place, a special place, so they can really suspend their disbelief. Its about amazing the audience as well as moving them.

It's a program that uses magic as a form of therapy for people with disabilities, where magic is taught to patients in hospitals to help them regain their dexterity and their coordination by learning sleight of hand, in addition to boosting the patient's self-esteem by giving them a skill that an able-bodied person doesn't even have.

The most important thing is presentation.