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

- David Copperfield

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

The audience likes to be taken on new journeys.

- David Copperfield

The audiences are what keep me enthusiastic.

- David Copperfield

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

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

My show is constantly evolving... new tricks are added, old ones are dropped... so it stays fresh. But it's the randomly selected participants from the audience that make it fresh and provide some of the best comic relief.

- David Copperfield

Physical rehab is often very, very hard work.

- David Copperfield

It's okay for me to be gay, but God didn't make me that way.

- David Copperfield

If I was gay, why would I hide it?

- David Copperfield

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

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

- David Copperfield

I really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.

- David Copperfield

I need a form of escape even when I'm working really hard.

- David Copperfield

I have always been interested in pushing magic forward.

- David Copperfield

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

- David Copperfield

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

- David Copperfield

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

- David Copperfield

For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.

- David Copperfield

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

- David Copperfield