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.Ricky Jay
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Hansika Motwani -
The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
J. G. Ballard -
I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
Mahesh Babu -
Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.
Parker Posey -
My first film is coming out, and it's in 3D, and it's 'The Hobbit,' so it's a bit weird.
Adam Brown -
I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
Ian Hart
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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.
Zosia Mamet -
A film like 'The Sixth Sense' burns an image of who you are into people's minds.
Haley Joel Osment -
I love actors.
Cameron Crowe -
I don't really want a film as a present; you can get me a diamond ring.
Maggie Cheung -
Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.
A. R. Rahman -
I've done a lot of TV, but not film.
Manny Montana
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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.
Alyssa Milano -
Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.
Kevin Kline -
Enforcement efforts should focus on aggressive prosecution of bad actors under existing anti-fraud laws rather than imposing costly and largely ineffective procedural requirements on all public companies.
Mallory Factor -
As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.
Amy Sherman-Palladino -
When I was very young, biology, the diversity of life, was one of my main interests. I know there's this image people have that I'm this spoiled, cocky punk of an actor. Honestly, that's not who I am. I really care that so many species have been wiped out, like genocide of entire races. I believe in the divine right of all species to survive on this planet. So I decided I want to be active as an environmentalist. I learned. I asked experts. I got active.
Leonardo DiCaprio -
American films are less American every day, because you have to please a world audience. There's less authenticity, so it's more accessible.
Ang Lee
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When I was very young and first worked in Hollywood, the films had bred in me one sole ambition: to get away from them; to live inthe great world outside movies; to meet people who created their own situations through living them; who ad-libbed their own dialogue; whose jokes were not the contrivance of some gag writer.
Anita Loos -
There haven't been fundamental structural changes in America. There's been a very important symbolic change and that is the election of Barack Obama. But the only black people who truly live in a post-racial world in America all live in a very nice house on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Henry Louis Gates -
My ideal would be to hop both sides of the Atlantic to work, as I'm sure every actor would.
Rachel Shenton -
I'm a total one-hour drama addict. I think when you're a comedian, you tend towards dramas because that's the less stressful thing to watch.
Sarah Silverman -
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.
Ricky Jay