When failing spectacularly the trick is to employ an inverted Schadenfreude. Take ownership of your misfortune.
How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.
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.
Roy Walker: That story was just a trick to get you to do something for me.
Dana Barrett: [possessed by Zuul] Do you want this body? Dr. Peter Venkman: Is this a trick question?
Rhett Butler: You still think you're the cutest trick in shoe leather.
Laurie: [to herself, watching kids trick-or-treating] Well, kiddo, I thought you outgrew superstition.
[last lines] [the illusionist's voice in the inspector's memory] Eisenheim: Everything you've seen is an illusion, it's a trick.
Cobb: I know how to find secrets from your Mind, I know all the tricks!
Robert Angier: The man stole my life. I steal his trick.
Judge Doom: No Toon can resist the old shave-and-a-haircut trick...
Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
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.
I'm not a big fan of doing it because I get really frustrated because I can't do any of the tricks, but I love to watch magic.
People talk about the plots and what happened, and they see your tricks a mile away.
To me, the trick is not how can I make people laugh. It is, how can I make people laugh in a different way.
The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.
Teams that spend a lot of time learning the tricks of the trade will probably never really learn the trade.
The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again.
When you work with David Lynch, you never know where he's going next and that's exciting. He's like a magician pulling out new tricks.
So what’s the test?" "Ah, that’s the trick of it. It’s not a test. It’s real life.
