Penn Jillette Quotes
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If you just want to help people out you end up being a good person. I mean there’s every single kind of horrible self-help book will tell you if you’re feeling down and you’re feeling depressed just go help someone out and it’s a cliché, you wouldn’t even say it it’s so embarrassing, except it happens to be true.
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My body really, really wanted to reproduce when I was 15. It took a lot of civilization, socialization, willpower and some emulsion polymerization technology for me not to reproduce at 15.
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Magic is the Special Olympics of entertainment.
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Trump, who never showed the slightest glimpse of humility.
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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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I do believe that a belief in God is crazy, but that doesn't mean that the people who believe in it are crazy. Those are two different things. Ideas can be stupid and crazy, and the people who hold those ideas are not necessarily stupid and crazy.
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In reality, many people let go of religion later in life.
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I believe the fast track to atheism is reading the Bible. I've read it three times all the way through. It's a big part of our culture, a big part of our history. I don't just read things I agree with.
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If you want to talk about magic, the stuff that blows me away is the stuff that's done close up.
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If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.
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To drive a car in rural America is freedom. Before I had a car, I'd never seen a rock and roll show, I'd never seen a comic or a show.
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It is really funny to see people that you know acting unpleasantly just because there are TV cameras on.
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Barack Obama is way smarter than Bush - so way, way smarter than me. Obama is way more charismatic than me.
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I don't believe the majority always knows what's best for everyone.
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I read a lot of books to my children, and they all seem really good. I think people have gotten really good at children's books.
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Cars mean nothing to me. I'm not a car guy.
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I don't want anyone as president who promises to take care of me. I may be stupid, but I want a chance to try to be a grown-up and take care of my family.
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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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Performers have the right to say what they want to, and anyone paying money has the right to accept or reject the art and entertainment that's available.
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I love the feeling of shredded wheat. I love healthy bird food with a fun-to-eat feel. Then you spray them with sugar, and I'm there.
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Poker would have never gotten on TV when we only had three networks.
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Everybody is designing magic iPhone apps that do things that are really, really beautiful, but a really important thing about magic is that the gimmick has to be ugly.
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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.