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Ricky Jay Quotes

I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: 1948

Topics

Long Write Always Radio Out Unusual

I do remember seeing Audio Adrenaline and The Newsboys, basically Christian rock, because that was what I was allowed to see by my parents.

Parents Christian Remember Seeing

I had, like, two goals in my career: One was to try to get into 'Second City.' When I moved to Chicago, my goal was to try to work at 'Second City.' And beyond that, my goal was to make enough money as an actor to not do anything else but act, not have to go and wait tables again.

Work Goals Money City Wait Goal

I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.

Look Copy Never Profound Degree

It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in.

Christopher Hitchens

Work Good Know More Inside Outside

Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.

Claire McCaskill

Life Start You Your Public Spend

What's interesting is a lot of the older music when we start performing it, it acts a lot like muscle memory. It's kind of like riding a bike. For me as a singer, I just had to remember like what part of my face I sang that into.

Music Bike Memory Me Start Face

At the beginning, there was this competitive vibe, like, 'Oh, we've got to compete for this audience.' But then, over the next few years afterwards, everyone on YouTube realized the more we work together, the more we collaborate, it just benefits everyone. It just became a really friendly community.

Anthony Padilla

Work Community Together Beginning

I am aware that as an actor, I can blame others for the failure of a film, the director, the script, choice of co-stars, timing of the release and so on. But now, as the director, I will have to shoulder all the blame.

Failure I Am Blame Choice I Can Now

One of the things that I was kind of holding on to from 'The Daily Show' was there was an exhaustion that I would feel because we just kind of got caught up in the news cycle. You tell a story, and that's an interesting story, and then the next day we have to drop it and talk about something else. That's so unfair to the story and the people.

Daily Day People Story Interesting

To do anything with someone like Bono or someone would be like, you know, a milestone, I think, as a musician.

Priyanka Chopra

Think Someone You Know Anything

I'm pretty adventurous - the more wacky, the better! Sometimes I'll want to look chic, but lots of the time, I'll wear really mad colours and patterns, as it's just more fun.

Poppy Delevingne

Time Fun Better Look Mad Sometimes

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, 'Oh, I forgot that bit,' then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you've figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

Richard P. Feynman

Me Book Someone Solution You Look

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