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Ricky Jay Quotes

For me, the most exciting thing is to create good magic that's entertaining for an audience, and it would be lovely if a magician was fooled as well.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: 1948

Topics

Good Me Magic Create Lovely Well

I don't mind doing occasional guest appearances on shows, but I have other things I'd like to do in my life now.

Life Mind My Life Doing Now Guest

The contrast of ISIL's videos - which proclaim a fully-functioning and prosperous state - with those of RBSS, which captured the dysfunction and violence of everyday life, is shocking. In a sense, it's a war of ideas, a war of propaganda, a war being waged with cameras and computers, not just guns.

Matthew Heineman

Life War Ideas Computers Violence

When you drop weight, the closer you come to the fight, the more your muscles tighten up.

Fight You More Up Muscles Weight

Working with Madonna, she always told me the meaning behind the steps and why I was doing these steps - she treated us like actors. So I feel like I've always been an actor, truly.

Me Feel Doing Meaning Why Actor

If you look at a company like Qualcomm, we're a big exporter. We essentially have tremendous revenue offshore and large employment onshore. I think it's very difficult to make big changes in that.

Steve Mollenkopf

Think You Look Changes Difficult

Books are really fun because your 'voice' is pretty undiluted. There is a very direct connection between yourself and your audience. You will have an editor, but their job is to help you clarify or improve your voice, not change it.

Change Job Yourself Fun Voice Help

To be able to experience a thousand different lives within my lifetime is something that always appealed to me. I wasn't content with just being one person for the rest of my life.

Life Experience Me Rest My Life

My passion is more specific, in the sense that I've always liked doing comedy. I've always liked doing music. I like acting. And apparently, you need those things in movies.

Christopher Guest

Music Passion Comedy Doing Acting

My mother's from Thailand, and they're very strict about girls in bikinis, but I would love to do a shoot in the floating market in Thailand.

Love Mother Floating Thailand Shoot

We all know that as we form thoughts, they form deep channels in our minds and in our brains. Chronic pain is an example. If you burn yourself, you pull your hand away. But if you're still in pain in six months' or six years' time, it's because these circuits are producing pain that's no longer helping you.

Christopher deCharms

Time Yourself Pain Thoughts Deep

My No. 1 piece of advice, especially for someone who's an actor-singer-dancer - a triple threat, they're called! - people say, 'What's the most important?' I always say acting. Without knowing why you're singing or what you're singing about, it's just noise. And without knowing why you're moving your body, it's just flailing of arms.

People Moving Singing Advice Someone

My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things.

Money Feel Bad Active Conscience

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