Top 60 David Copperfield Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “When people say you can’t do it – that it’s impossible – never lose hope. Just because they couldn’t doesn’t mean you can’t.”

— David Copperfield

2. “The most important thing is presentation.”

— David Copperfield

3. “The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will.’ Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.”

— David Copperfield

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

— David Copperfield

5. “The real secret of magic lies in the performance.”

— David Copperfield

6. “My dreams are my dress rehearsals for my future.”

— David Copperfield

7. “Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!”

— David Copperfield

8. “Let sleeping dogs lie – who wants to rouse ’em?”

— David Copperfield

9. “I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and inspire.”

— David Copperfield

10. “Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand – even back in the days of Robert Houdin.”

— David Copperfield

11. “It’s okay for me to be gay, but God didn’t make me that way.”

— David Copperfield

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

— David Copperfield

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

— David Copperfield

14. “You have to learn certain skills to present magic.”

— David Copperfield

15. “I learned that there were two ways I could live my life: following my dreams or doing something else. Dreams aren’t a matter of chance, but a matter of choice. When I dream, I believe I am rehearsing my future.”

— David Copperfield

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

— David Copperfield

17. “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.”

— David Copperfield

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

— David Copperfield

19. “When I was a kid, people wanted to be an astronaut. Today, kids want to be famous, and that’s totally the wrong approach. You have to have authenticity in what you’re doing. You have to really care about the core message of what you’re saying, and then everything else will fall into place.”

— David Copperfield

20. “If I was gay, why would I hide it?”

— David Copperfield

21. “Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.”

— David Copperfield

22. “Dreams are illusions, and we can’t let go of them because we would be dead.”

— David Copperfield

23. “My uncle’s house burned down when I was 6 years old. We got out safely. But ever since, I’ve had a nightmare of dying in a fire.”

— David Copperfield

24. “No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still trying to live down.”

— David Copperfield

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

— David Copperfield

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

— David Copperfield

27. “When you’re a guy and meet a girl the first time, you do whatever it takes.”

— David Copperfield

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

— David Copperfield

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

— David Copperfield

30. “Physical rehab is often very, very hard work.”

— David Copperfield

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

— David Copperfield

32. “Never stop listening to your audience.”

— David Copperfield

33. “Marriage is like a formality for me.”

— David Copperfield

34. “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.”

— David Copperfield

35. “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.”

— David Copperfield

36. “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.”

— David Copperfield

37. “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.”

— David Copperfield

38. “We all possess the need to dream.”

— David Copperfield

39. “Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.”

— David Copperfield

40. “The audience likes to be taken on new journeys.”

— David Copperfield

41. “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.”

— David Copperfield

42. “I act like I’m 14, if you haven’t figured that out yet.”

— David Copperfield

43. “I’m just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.”

— David Copperfield

44. “I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.”

— David Copperfield

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

— David Copperfield

46. “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.”

— David Copperfield

47. “But when I go off stage I don’t have a deck of cards with me all the time.”

— David Copperfield

48. “I will now make a scorpion appear in Osama bin Laden’s pants.”

— David Copperfield

49. “Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.”

— David Copperfield

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

— David Copperfield