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Top 20 Ricky Jay Quotes (2024 Update)

Ricky Jay Quote: “The book says we may be through with the past but the past ain’t through with us.”

1. “The book says we may be through with the past but the past ain’t through with us.”

Ricky Jay Quote: “If it sounds too good to be true, it always is.”

2. “If it sounds too good to be true, it always is.”

Ricky Jay Quote: “Magic is a powerful art that can support a weak performer.”

3. “Magic is a powerful art that can support a weak performer.”

Ricky Jay Quote: “I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That’s why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things a person can do.”

4. “I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That’s why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things a person can do.”

Ricky Jay Quote: “I grew up like Athena – covered with playing cards instead of armor – and, at the age of seven, materialized on a TV show, doing magic.”

5. “I grew up like Athena – covered with playing cards instead of armor – and, at the age of seven, materialized on a TV show, doing magic.”

Ricky Jay Quote: “Every acting gig isn’t the same, every writing job isn’t the same, every live performance isn’t the same – the challenge is the level of difficulty or ease, and that may vary.”

6. “Every acting gig isn’t the same, every writing job isn’t the same, every live performance isn’t the same – the challenge is the level of difficulty or ease, and that may vary.”

Ricky Jay Quote: “I certainly was performing before my writing was published, because I was performing when I was very young. And the thing is I’m very comfortable on stage, so a large portion of my act did come from ad-libs.”

7. “I certainly was performing before my writing was published, because I was performing when I was very young. And the thing is I’m very comfortable on stage, so a large portion of my act did come from ad-libs.”

Ricky Jay Quote: “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.”

8. “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 Quote: “The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.”

9. “The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.”

Ricky Jay Quote: “Dai Vernon, the greatest sleight of hand figure in the history of the art, rarely performed. But he invented magic and had an enormous influence on the whole range of sleight of hand. And so often, the magic he was doing was to fool other magicians.”

10. “Dai Vernon, the greatest sleight of hand figure in the history of the art, rarely performed. But he invented magic and had an enormous influence on the whole range of sleight of hand. And so often, the magic he was doing was to fool other magicians.”

Ricky Jay Quote: “Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.”

11. “Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.”

Ricky Jay Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

Ricky Jay Quote: “My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.”

13. “My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.”

Ricky Jay Quote: “Writing is the only thing in my life that doesn’t get easier. It just doesn’t.”

14. “Writing is the only thing in my life that doesn’t get easier. It just doesn’t.”

Ricky Jay Quote: “Theft annoys me more than anything else. The purloining of effects from another magician. Some people think it’s massive to steal the secrets of nuclear reactors, but to steal a card move is trivial. They’re wrong.”

15. “Theft annoys me more than anything else. The purloining of effects from another magician. Some people think it’s massive to steal the secrets of nuclear reactors, but to steal a card move is trivial. They’re wrong.”

Ricky Jay Quote: “Unlike other Jewish families, we didn’t go out for Chinese food on Sundays, but we spent our time in a world of baking powder biscuits and the best shrimp cocktails that ever were.”

16. “Unlike other Jewish families, we didn’t go out for Chinese food on Sundays, but we spent our time in a world of baking powder biscuits and the best shrimp cocktails that ever were.”

Ricky Jay Quote: “I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just interested.”

17. “I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just interested.”

Ricky Jay Quote: “That’s one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I’m very intrigued by use of language and slang, and criminal underground terms.”

18. “That’s one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I’m very intrigued by use of language and slang, and criminal underground terms.”

Ricky Jay Quote: “I’m probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.”

19. “I’m probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.”

Ricky Jay Quote: “I started doing radio pieces with no clear, preconceived idea, except that I have a tendency to be theatrical.”

20. “I started doing radio pieces with no clear, preconceived idea, except that I have a tendency to be theatrical.”

Ricky Jay Quote: “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.”

21. “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 Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

Ricky Jay Quote: “I know absolutely nothing about the 20th Century.”

23. “I know absolutely nothing about the 20th Century.”

Ricky Jay Quote: “I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual.”

24. “I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual.”

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