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Ricky Jay Quotes

My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: 1948

Topics

Father Mother Daughter King Long

My drum sticks are in the 'Hall of Fame.' I know that.

Jimmy Carl Black

Know Fame Drum Sticks Hall

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.

People Living Way Drink Even Tried

I do everything I can to be the best actor I can be, the best musician I can be. I try to take risks; I try not to let fear run my life.

Robert David Hall

Life Fear Best Risks My Life I Can

I see lots of cycles, for sure. There's the whole post-Star Wars era, but I don't think it's the whole story.

Story Think See I See Whole Sure

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

Milton Friedman

Good Politics Government Worthless

The factory model of education is a gargantuan bureaucracy. Some kids are good fits - I wasn't. The system gives you bad grades and tells you you're stupid. You don't think, 'If this kid's not a good fit, it could be the system's fault.'

Education Good Stupid Think You Bad

I'd love to say second place is great, but it's not.

Corey Lewandowski

Love Great Place Say Second Place

I think, as a kid, whenever you say you want to be an actor, you get discouraged, so perhaps if I had have listened to those people telling me that, I might have gone down the route of a teacher. But I was never really going to do that.

Teacher People Me Think You Down

The producers, the creators, and the cast, we recognize that 'Hamilton' is an inherently American story told by the definition of an American community; we are men and women of different colors, creeds, and orientations.

Brandon Victor Dixon

Women Community Men Colors Story

There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Life Play Movies Real Out Real Life

I wrote 'The Hunger Games' in a chair, like a La-Z-Boy chair, next to my bed. I had an office, but my kids sort of took it over.

Suzanne Collins

Chair Bed Games Office Over Hunger

I don't have an anti-Hollywood feeling. It's just I'm a New Zealander. I was born in New Zealand, and it's where my house is, and my family goes to school there. My interest is to remain in my homeland and make films. I don't really want to relocate myself to other countries in the world to work.

Work Family Myself School World New

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