Ricky Jay Quotes
I think the toughest thing about being an actor in a film is to be with a director who doesn't know what they want. And that can be really, really frustrating.
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My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
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Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.
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Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.
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My first film is coming out, and it's in 3D, and it's 'The Hobbit,' so it's a bit weird.
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I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
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With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.
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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.
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I love film. I've always been enchanted by doing film. It's something I grew up watching - classics and directors I admire - so that's something I've always been passionate about.
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A film like 'The Sixth Sense' burns an image of who you are into people's minds.
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I love actors.
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I love to watch low-budget indie artsy films, but I do also love the big blockbuster things. I would love to do that one day, do a Marvel film. That would be really great.
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I don't really want a film as a present; you can get me a diamond ring.
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Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.
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I've done a lot of TV, but not film.
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My wife Victoria Harwood was art director on 'Far North,' and she had designed my student film, 'The Sheep Thief.'
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Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.
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We're doing what we want to do. Basically it's just down to the fact that we're all posers. We all want to go out on stage, pose, wear dinky white boots, tight trousers and have all the girls looking at our bollocks. That's us. We like showing off, we're arrogant bastards, it's just like ... over the top.
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I symbolized doping... My phone rarely rings. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of riders who call me.
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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
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I think the toughest thing about being an actor in a film is to be with a director who doesn't know what they want. And that can be really, really frustrating.
