Ricky Jay Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“I've been really lucky in terms of film projects with people, terrific actors and also writers and directors that I really respect.”

“I suppose that if I could only do one thing, a solid card effect would be pretty high on the list. That's the root of it all, sleight-of-hand. It's certainly the thing I feel most comfortable with.”

“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.”

“In the winters, I enrolled in the hotel management program at Cornell University. I naively thought that I knew something about sleight-of-hand, entertainment and food, and that would be all I needed.”

“There are enormous dangers in thinking that the world online is the world as it exists, that what you get from your one stroke on the Internet is all there is to know.”