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.

Ricky Jay

• Magic
• Audience
• Exciting
• Lovely
• Entertaining
• Magician
• Fooled

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• When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!

  

  Laura Marano
  • You
  • Feel
  • Audience

• I did a sitcom with Desi Arnaz Jr. in a pilot called 'Whacked Out.' We were bombing, and Lucille Ball grabbed the mic and started berating the audience.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Audience
  • Started
  • Pilot

• The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • America
  • Society
  • Free

• I don't think about who the audience is for my books.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Think
  • Audience
  • Books

• My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Want
  • Audience

• You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Remember
  • Audience
  • Look

• Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Bad

• My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Life
  • Job

• Football brings you lots of lovely things, but then you have to realise that it's actually a job.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Job
  • Football
  • Lovely

• It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Birth
  • Lovely
  • Rainbow

• Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Good
  • School
  • Kids

• Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.

  

  Saadi
  • Heart
  • Eye
  • Lovely

• There is more magic in sin if it is not committed.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Magic

• Mombi was not exactly a Witch, because the Good Witch who ruled that part of the Land of Oz had forbidden any other Witch to exist in her dominions. So Tip's guardian, however much she might aspire to working magic, realized it was unlawful to be more than a Sorceress, or at most a Wizardess.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Magic
  • Witch
  • Mombi

• I had done this all by myself. No one had performed the magic for me. I and the shapes were alone together, revealing themselves in a silently respectful dialogue. Since I could bare lines into living reality, I was all powerful. I could read.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Done
  • Together
  • Reality

• I have friends who practice witchcraft, and I study tarot myself. I guess, to be specific, I don't want to believe in a world without magic.

  

  Kate Leth
  • World
  • Believe
  • Friends

• Magic has been around forever, and it's also been in trouble forever. I'm not suggesting that there was ever a time when the practice of magic was celebrated by those in power. Actually, such practices were routinely demonized by monarchs and organized religions precisely because magic is inherently democratic.

  

  David Liss
  • Time
  • Power
  • Forever

• You can't explain why people are friends and why those friendships last, but there certainly is magic in it. It's just something that you treasure.

  

  Jamie Farr
  • People
  • Why
  • Friends

• I believe the Champions League has all that magic because it gathers all the best European teams, and that gives you the feeling of trying to be the best. That's why the Champions League has this special kind of emotion.

  

  Neymar
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Why

• When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines. I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Comedy
  • Serious
  • Audience

• The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Responsibility
  • Artist

• Africa shares with Asia a common background of colonialism, of exploitation, of discrimination, of oppression. At Bandung, African and Asian States dedicated themselves to the liberation of their two continents from foreign domination and affirmed the right of all nations to develop in their own way, free of any external interference.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Free
  • Discrimination
  • Oppression

• 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.

  

  Ricky Jay
  • Magic
  • Audience
  • Exciting