Penn Jillette Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
-
To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
-
Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
-
Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
-
Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
-
We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
-
One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
-
The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty.
-
Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
-
In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
-
If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
-
My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
-
We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
-
Parsi theater was known for melodrama.
-
I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.
-
My first time coming over to North America was to New York around Christmastime when I was 7. My mom was a flight attendant, and she got put on to the Trans-Atlantic route over Christmastime, so she brought the whole family.
-
Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.
-
The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other.
-
I don't look at family and what I do for a living as separate things. They're all kind of one thing, and this is part of their life just like it's part of mine.
-
I had to wait 110 years to become famous... I intend to enjoy it as long as possible.
-
The pig is the most shameless animal on the face of the earth. It is the only animal that invites its friends to have sex with its mate. In America, most people consume pork. Many times after dance parties, they have swapping of wives; many say 'you sleep with my wife and I will sleep with your wife.' If you eat pigs then you behave like pigs.
-
We know what racist people look like. They don't deny it. They just don't!
