Ricky Jay Quotes

Maybe the the luxury of not having acting be my only profession is that I can be more selective about what I choose to be in. I've been really lucky in terms of film projects with people, terrific actors and also writers and directors that I really respect.

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• To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Real
  • Play
  • Film

• I love working with the Farrelly brothers. I'm a big fan and feel very lucky to have gotten to work with them a few times. One thing that I learned while working with them is that you have to keep your cell phone off when filming scenes, or you owe them a lot of money!

  

  Carly Craig
  • Work
  • Money
  • Feel

• My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Music
  • Character
  • Film

• I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Film
  • Should
  • Look

• Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Film
  • Being
  • Cherish

• There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Work
  • Day
  • Acting

• Acting is equal parts talent and perseverance.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Acting
  • Talent
  • Perseverance

• I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Film
  • Limitations
  • My Own

• My name can raise money on a small-budget film.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Money
  • Small
  • Film

• I would recommend going out for more independent films. You can get bigger roles and really work your acting chops and build a reel.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Work
  • Acting
  • Independent

• I'm one of the lucky few who never had to face the whole 'Oh, you've had a baby, and now work will have to suffer' bit. It just wasn't a big deal when I got married and had a baby.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Work
  • Baby
  • Lucky

• I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Like
  • Acting
  • Actor

• I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.

  

  Zach Gilford
  • Job
  • Movie
  • Fun

• Doing scripted acting is a challenge to me. I can't remember things too good, so remembering lines is a challenge to your boy.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Challenge

• When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • You
  • Lucky
  • Anything

• Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Good
  • Acting
  • Feel Good

• I was actually sacked from my first job. It was at a workshop for a short film this poet had written, about when she used to work in a strip club. After the first week, I was told not to come back.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Work
  • Job
  • Film

• I don't take myself seriously in the slightest, so it does amaze me that I've ended up being in all these very dark, sinister plays. But I love it because, touch wood, I'm lucky enough not to have that level of darkness in my life.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Life
  • Lucky
  • Take

• Film spectators are quiet vampires.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Film
  • Vampires
  • Spectators

• What I really like is the marriage of both [writing and acting] - for instance, with Postcards. I don't actually act in it, but I worked on it with Mike [Nichols] as I went along, creating the character, so it was a bit like acting for me.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Acting

• I feel growing up in Mumbai is an advantage, as we grow up speaking so many languages that when we go abroad, it becomes easier to learn new languages.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Up
  • Growing
  • New

• If bliss is to scratch an itch, what greater bliss, no itch at all? So too, the worldly, desirous, find some bliss, But greatest is the bliss with no desire

  

  Nagarjun
  • Desire

• Maybe the the luxury of not having acting be my only profession is that I can be more selective about what I choose to be in. I've been really lucky in terms of film projects with people, terrific actors and also writers and directors that I really respect.

  

  Ricky Jay
  • Film
  • Acting
  • Lucky