Trick Quotes

Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow.

The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years.

The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.

Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.

Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system.

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.

He was a top man and a good professional. He was one of those who you know will never play a trick and you can ask him to do anything for you and he will. An unassuming man and a great loss to us all.

I have the 'thing' worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out.

The trick to balance is to not make sacrificing important things become the norm.

Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.'

It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

I saw it as a challenge to play with Pat and we put hours and hours into it, usually on the bus. The trick was to find something that we both wanted to play within our different styles which would add up to being greater than the sum of its parts.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

I don't know how long I'll be trick or treating. Maybe I'll be 80 years old and still trick or treating.

Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.

I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do.

Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved with it. It's pure and it's real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.

When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

When you have to play a character that seems to be a relatively decent person and seems to be like yourself, I think the trick in that kind of character, so that you don't become a cliche, is to find where their weaknesses are.

In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.

Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days.

It's in the vein, somewhere in a cross between The Beatles, Cheap Trick, The Stones, Badfinger, you know, but it's not retro at all. But it is very pop.

Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.

I like working with an actor who doesn't do the oneupmanship. One who has no trick and gives a true, honest performance.

My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.

Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

Well, to tell you truth, I have learned a long time ago that the trick when doing a debate, any kind of debate, is to just turn off the judgment switch in my head.

A lot of the people in San Francisco think of themselves as healers - not just as people delivering this base service, but giving their clients spiritual help. It's almost like being an actor, playing a different part for each trick.