Penn Jillette Quotes
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The only secret of magic is that I'm willing to work harder on it than you think it's worth.
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The definition of a stupid thing is something that if you do everything right, you still get hurt. Fire-eating and love are stupid things.
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Charities are really good. To a certain extent, the ones you pick are arbitrary.
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I love the idea that horror and fear is a celebration of health and life.
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My hair is way, way long. I've hitchhiked across the country a zillion times. I've ridden in every car. I was never a hippie. It takes more than long hair.
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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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When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in.
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'Moxie' is a name that was created by an American for the first national soft drink and then went on to mean chutzpah, and that's nice.
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Counterintuitive actions prove we can trust real knowledge and do the opposite of what we feel makes sense.
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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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Tolerance is you saying something crazy and me smiling and saying, 'That's nice.'
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We know what racist people look like. They don't deny it. They just don't!
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Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion.
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Having a Hummer is stupid. It's stupid to waste that much gas. It's stupid to waste that much money on gas. It's stupid to parade your insecurities on public roads. Hummers are stupid-looking.
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But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen.
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You can't believe how pro-gay and pro-freedom-of-speech I am. I'm way out beyond anyone on the Left.
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I get along so much better with fundamentalist Christians than I do with wishy-washy liberals, who want everyone to get along.
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I was always a little embarrassed when there was an act on television that requires a great deal of skill but is a little goofy, and the host comes over and acts like the person doing this skill is some sort of fool for having learned to do something that's very, very difficult.
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I love when violent, dangerous art is done by people who are not violent and dangerous. I love that when George Romero was making 'Dawn of the Dead,' he was coaching his son's little league team.
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Every poker player is smarter than me.
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I don't speak for all Libertarians any more than Sean Penn speaks for all Democrats.
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I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself.
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TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.
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I don't question things that go against what I believe very much. But boy, the stuff that I really want to believe, I really question a lot.