Penn Jillette Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don't follow what you've been told you're supposed to do.
-
You know what? At the end of the day, funny is funny. I hope to see the end of all the female cliches that are written in a lot of comedies that are named chick flicks.
-
I think a British icon is someone who conducts themself with real dignity: someone who is truly talented and modest. These are things that I would aspire to in my career.
-
I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
-
I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has just been real. She isn't trying too hard ever.
-
We need the world to respect us. They consume a lot of hits and just act like it wasn't... I ain't never seen nobody make these many hits and not get notified for it. And change the game like we did and bring the flow to the game the way we did and not get noticed for it, like the the big way - the real system way.
-
I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.
-
I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.
-
I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.
-
In my heart, I'm 100% real. You can't pull out nothing in my past that can say I'm not 100% real.
-
I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense.
-
Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.
-
The group-effort sound in recording of 'Sea Lion' is like, you really hear all the people in the room and hear them interlocking. There's a real freight-train energy of all these people at the same time playing.
-
I think at Le Cirque I learned how to make real food, which is what people crave, not just gimmicky things on a plate.
-
I just consider myself a piece of the puzzle and I'm lucky enough to be asked or invited to the party, if you will. I hope I can bring some laughs and grimaces to the fans.
-
I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
-
Real acting is about giving people an insight into a person, letting the audience in.
-
The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion.
-
I think that's what makes my music different from other artists in my lane is that I write every word that's on my album, and every word comes from a real experience or a real feeling that I've either experienced or felt. And I'm very particular about that, and I take a lot of pride in it, so you know if I say something on a song, I mean it.
-
Cancer is a growth hormone for empathy, and empathy makes us useful to each other in ways we were not, could not have been, before.
-
Growing up in Arizona, I love fireworks, shooting off bottle rockets and M80s.
-
I never met a man I didn't want to fight.
-
I'm honoured and delighted to be named the 'Irish Times'/Irish Sports Council Sportswoman of the Year 2014. This has been an amazing year for me and for Irish women in sport, and I would like to congratulate all the finalists in their respective fields who have excelled at major sporting events.
-
Atheism is the only real hope against terrorism.
