Quotes by Penn Jillette

About Penn Jillette:

Penn Fraser Jillette is an American magician, juggler, comedian, musician, inventor, actor, and best-selling author known for his work with fellow magician Teller in the team Penn & Teller. He is also known for his advocacy of atheism, scientific skepticism, libertarianism and free-market capitalism.
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I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same color. I tend to overthink things.

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I'm not misunderstood. I am brash. I make my living being brash.

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I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark, read my books.

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My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.

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I intend to do the Penn & Teller show until they pry my cheesy magic wand from my cold dead fingers.

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The medium is not the message - the message is the message.

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When you tell other people to do stuff they don't know how to do, they tend to freak out.

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You have in Vegas the most heterogeneous audience you're gonna get anywhere in the country. In Boston, Chicago, Miami, you know who goes to the theater. In Vegas, you have people who only see one theater show a year, and it's in Vegas.

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Every day, TV, newspapers, and the Internet bombard us with a message that we're destroying the earth. Ice caps are melting, rivers are dying, polar bears are drowning, and trees are doing something.

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I've voted Libertarian as long as I can remember, but I don't really remember much before the Clintons and the Bushes. Those clans made a lot of us bugnutty.

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I had e-mail in 1984! I had an e-mail address then, which means that all you could write to was Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. There were three of us, writing to each other.

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I am a huge fan of proselytizing. I am a huge fan of speaking your mind. The only way we can share the universe... is by talking very strongly about what we believe.

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One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality. That is the subject that, if you have a brain in your head, is always dealt with in magic. The smarter the t...

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All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.

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The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing.

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The fact is that violence gives you a rush.

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If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all.

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Mentally ill people come from all belief systems.

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When someone is trying to interpret something for you, they always have an agenda.

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As much as I disagreed with every second of 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' the fact that it is out made me jump for joy.

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Showbiz is just there to give people something to talk about.

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Author Bio

  • NamePenn Jillette
  • DescriptionAmerican magician
  • BornMarch 5, 1955
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionRadio Host; Magician; Actor; Novelist; Circus Performer; Juggler