"For me, the most exciting thing is to……" — Ricky Jay
"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."
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27 Quotes by Ricky Jay
Ricky Jay has 27 quotes on this site.
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If it sounds too good to be true, it always is.
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I grew up like Athena—covered with playing cards instead of armor—and, at the age of seven, materialized on a TV…
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The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.
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Magic is a powerful art that can support a weak performer.
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I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That's why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things…
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I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds…
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I know absolutely nothing about the 20th Century.
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I started doing radio pieces with no clear, preconceived idea, except that I have a tendency to be theatrical.
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I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show…
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Unlike other Jewish families, we didn't go out for Chinese food on Sundays, but we spent our time in a…
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I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying…
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That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that…
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I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.
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I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
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I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out…
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Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and,…
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You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering…
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If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
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I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I…
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I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's…
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You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into…
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I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact,…
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I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap…
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I'm trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my…
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