Penn Jillette Quotes
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
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I never gave it that much thought to pursue acting or anything, but I would definitely be a Bond girl if they asked me. For sure - I would make a great evil Bond girl!
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There's a lot of comedy in 'The Guest,' so it was a bit more fun in a sense - it wasn't so heavy like 'It Follows.'
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Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact.
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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I know that I'm getting the real deal with my mom. I know that she's telling it like it is. She's proud of me when I've earned it and she's disappointed in me when I've earn that. She's really my spectrum on where I am as a person.
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Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear.
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As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!
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I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.
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I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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On a purely personal level, it's very strange, because as a kid, Superman informed my personality. Now I've been given the job of forming Superman's personality and, in some ways, drawing on my own background.
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Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?
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I do think musical-theater actors can get a bad rap, and I see why. There is a certain slickness - there's nothing better than an amazing musical, but an okay musical can be one of the worst times you've ever had.
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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You're going to work out and try to maintain the strength you gain in the offseason, and then you work to gain after the season is over.
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To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.
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When your house is burning down, you don't worry about the remodeling.
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The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.
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I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in a while, it felt like it already was full.
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Jay-Z, he knows precisely who he's going for - 14-year-old white suburban girls.
