Penn Jillette Quotes
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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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I'm a big fan of huge populations of people, so you'd think with 300 million people in the country, you don't even have to please 1% to be phenomenally successful.
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My whole family is missing that sports gene. I hope I didn't screw that up by marrying a great golfer.
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If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all.
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Everyone's goals are the same with very small differences. I mean, the goal of a socialist and the goal of a libertarian are exactly the same. The goals are happiness and security and freedom, and you balance those.
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I've voted Libertarian as long as I can remember, but I don't really remember much before the Clintons and the Bushes. Those clans made a lot of us bugnutty.
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From 1985 to 1994, I lived in Manhattan in a big old loft right off Times Square. I could walk to work, which was in a couple of Broadway theaters, to Howard Stern's studio, and to 30 Rock for 'Letterman' and 'SNL.' Even in New York, walking to work is homey and folksy, like living in a small town.
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It wasn't success, because Teller and I, by the time Asparagus Valley got together - within a year, we had achieved all our goals. I mean, our goal was to earn our living doing exactly what we wanted. Which is many people's goal.
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I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.
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I'm really happy with all the art that was inspired by religion, and I think I'd be tickled to little tiny pieces if art in the future was inspired by other things.
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I believe very much that the most damning thing you can say about Muslims is that you're afraid to say anything because they'll hurt you.
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If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order.
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We can't start getting picky because we've got enough food; that's just self-centered and racist. Unless you and yours are starving, you need to shut the fuck up!
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The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again.
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Juggling is very, very straightforward; very, very black and white; you're manipulating objects, not people. And that's always appealed to me.
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'Zolten' is a common Hungarian name, it's my wife's maiden name and most importantly, it's the name of Dracula's dog.
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I started out as a juggler, so I know what it means to spend eight hours a day, seven days a week practicing something that people just dismiss with a wave of hand.
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The Tea Party claims to want small government.
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Religion is often just tribalism: pride in a group one was born into, a group that is often believed to have 'God' on its side.
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I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark, read my books.
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I've never revved my car at a light for an attractive woman or an auto-rival, not even as a joke.
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I'm not misunderstood. I am brash. I make my living being brash.
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Penn & Teller stopped doing practical jokes, and the reason is we got much too good at it.
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I grew up as a Christian. I suppose at some level I wanted to believe someone was watching over me.