Copperfield Quotes

"W.C. Fields had his own ideas about playing Mr Micawber in The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copperfield, the Younger (1935). He wanted to include a juggling routine and when I said (Charles Dickens) never mentioned Micawber juggling, he said, `He probably forgot`."

In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don`t ever want me to say I`m great?

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you`ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don`t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.