I’m much more interested in lesser-known eccentrics and characters and performers. Like Matthew Buchinger, who was born in Germany in 1674, had no arms or legs and yet did magic, and had 14 kids, and made the most extraordinary calligraphy. Ricky Jay Read 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. Ricky Jay Read 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. Ricky Jay Read 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. Ricky Jay Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business. Ricky Jay Read Quote
My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India. Ricky Jay Read 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. Ricky Jay Read Quote
I don’t know what first got me to attack melons. It’s not like I ate a bad one and got an upset stomach. It just eventually seemed like the appropriate fruit. Ricky Jay Read Quote
