Trick Quotes

What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.

They weren't interested in entertainment. They were tough. I learned one trick, which was to be quieter than they were until they had to look at you. It took a lot of agressiveness.

The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.

The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.

The big trick in putting is not method; the secret of putting is domination of the nerves.

Maybe by his second year in Hogwarts, Harry Potter will learn the trick to making a movie this good, but don't bet on it. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is one of the best films of the year.

My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.

It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home.

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.

Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.

That became a big time in comic books because it's when people were starting to break out into independent stuff, the market was getting choked with speculators and everybody was trying to do their own trick covers.

The healthcare bill not only is a monstrosity in terms of growing the government and cutting out the private sector, the way it was passed was sleazy. Every old Washington trick was used to pass the healthcare bill.

I go to eat dinner with my folks when I'm home. I think that's the trick.

I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior.

I remember traveling around in Arkansas with Senator Robinson, and I told him what this little trick was. He felt very much part of it and had me take pictures of people unbeknownst to them.

I felt for a while with the GH appearances, they were kind of using me as a media trick, bringing me on for three or four weeks, saying I was back on the show, but not really writing for me. And then I would be gone. I just didn't like that anymore. I guess it was me putting my foot down.

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.

The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

Jack the only trick I ever played on you was never tricking you at all.

The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.

Part of what makes you great as a young player can hurt you at the end of your career, in terms of you need a certain amount of ego, a certain amount of arrogance to be able to play well and to push yourself and trick yourself into thinking you're better than you really are.

For my next trick I will make everyone understand me.

So when I got to be about 13 or 14, I started listening - even though my parents music was way cool - to contemporary hard rock at that time, which was Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Ted Nugent and all that, and that's just where I came from.

Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.

I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick.

First off, I don't want anyone to think I'm this huge thing in Japan. Every group from here that's made any records over any length of time - even indie bands - have a Cheap Trick effect in Japan.

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.