Ricky Jay Quotes

Like every art form, there are jealousies and angers and competitiveness in magic. But there's camaraderie among magicians, whether you perform it for a living or you're an enthusiast.

Ricky Jay

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ArtMagicYouLivingCompetitiveness

In France, they call the people who come to the theatre 'les spectateurs'; in Britain and Ireland, they are the audience, the people who listen. This does not mean the French are not interested in language. On the contrary. It actually says more about the undeveloped visual sense over here.

Simon McBurney

PeopleTheatreLanguageListenMean

As soon as I finish a job, I'm like, 'Geez, I got away with that, and I got paid all right!' But then you get to the press junket, and I'm like, 'Oh God, this is where you earn your money.'

Travis Fimmel

GodMoneyJobYouRightFinish

This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous.

Robert Capa

WarDangerousGetting OldMoreOld

I know that I wouldn't mind going back to work if I could find the right script and the right crew to work with.

Mary Badham

WorkMindBackFindKnowRight

I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to.

Liz Phair

MusicTimeMeRememberMoviesKind

It takes such a commitment of passion and energy and time, and it's all so encompassing to direct that you've got to see the bullseye, and you know you can hit it - or at least get awfully close.

Jonathan Mostow

PassionTimeCommitmentEnergyYou

That's why I wrote 'Fighter'. I have that need in me to help people. I am all about the underdog.

Christina Aguilera

I AmPeopleMeUnderdogHelpWhy

I started watching so many different types of women, saw all the complexities of them, all the ways and the look and shapes they could be, and I felt it was missing for me in American film. I didn't see anybody I was watching in movies that felt like me. I felt rather tortured and lonely about it.

Brie Larson

WomenMeLonelyAmericanLookSee

Bronze makes the most complex waveforms of any substance known to man. It creates these vibrations that will just crack your skull.

Brian Reitzell

ManWillSkullComplexCrackJust

I'm obsessed with great endings and crazy intros and stuff like that. I think we all are from what we've listened to and stuff, so I've always focused on great bridge melodies that just kind of naturally fit, or like a crazy ending at the end of 'Seize the Day,' something like that.

Synyster Gates

GreatDayCrazyBridgeEndingThink

To me, we never get enough funding. In New York, we are clearly the number one terrorist target in the country.

Peter T. King

New YorkMeEnoughCountryTarget

Well, you know... I grew up in postwar Britain, when you were lucky to get anything to eat. People in America have absolutely no conception of how austere England was after the war. While you were all sort of eating butter and eggs, we were eating rabbit. That's what there was in the butcher shop.

Tim Curry

WarPeopleEatingAmericaYouKnow

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