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

• 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

• There will be difficult moments in a five-gram trip, but on the other hand certain questions will be solved forever for you, because you will validate the existence of this dimension. You will see what your relationship to it is.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Relationship
  • Moments
  • Forever

• I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.

  

  Phil Knight
  • Time
  • Thinking

• Toph does not know the words, and I know few of the words, but you cannot fucking stop us from singing

  

  Dave Eggers
  • Words
  • Stop
  • Singing

• I'm not for a temporary war tax. We're putting actual dollars in one way or the other, and so if we're gonna look at taxes, we ought to look at a comprehensive tax reform policy.

  

  Stephen Pagliuca
  • War
  • Taxes
  • Reform

• You can't be invisible being Asian. You can't say "Hi, I'm white!"

  

  Arthur Dong
  • White
  • Invisible
  • Asian

• 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