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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• I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Think
  • Movies
  • Audience

• 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
  • Free
  • Society

• So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
  • Audience
  • Songs

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

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Think
  • Audience
  • Books

• I was very, very little - it was the first time I ever cooked on my own, with my mother's supervision - and I made scrambled eggs. I felt so accomplished, like magic!

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Magic

• 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

• The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Poetry
  • Magic
  • Seems

• 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

• The English have a special sense of humour. This I immediately experienced in the dressing room. As I walked with two plates while eating, suddenly a team-mate asked me, 'Basti, what time is it?' hoping I would automatically turn my hand to look at my watch. That's quite entertaining.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • Time
  • Sense
  • Experienced

• I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star - I am an actor, too.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Star
  • Audience
  • Actor

• 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

• Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience's defection to other forms of entertainment.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Audience
  • Entertainment

• 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

• For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Music
  • Magic
  • Popular

• When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock -- to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Vision
  • Audience
  • Relax

• The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for other things besides just cartoon shows.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Character
  • Nice
  • Los Angeles

• I'm really interested in starting to write my own songs. I never really did, but hopefully I will because I'm so interested in writing my own songs.

  

  Danielle Bradbery
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Starting

• To feel is perhaps the most terrifying thing in this society.

  

  Cecil Taylor
  • Feels

• 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