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.
Max Eastman

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman

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.
James Franco

Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.
Tom Baker

Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.
Bob Uecker

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

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

But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together.
Buddy Rich

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

Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.
Maureen O'Hara

Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent.
Pete Seeger

Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.
Sam Shepard

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.
Matthew Sweet

For my next trick I will make everyone understand me.
Marc Maron

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

Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days.
Donald O'Connor

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.
Geoffrey Boycott

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

I agree that Ruskin has done much harm to counter balance much good in giving people the trick of talking about Art instead of really doing a little of it to enable them to understand.
William H. Hunt

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