Penn Jillette Quotes
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If you don't pay your taxes and you don't answer the warrant and you don't go to court, eventually someone will pull a gun. Eventually someone with a gun will show up. I want everything the government does to be done, I just want it to be done voluntarily.
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Religion is faith. Faith is belief without evidence. Belief without evidence cannot be shared. Faith is a feeling. Love is also a feeling, but love makes no universal claims. Love is pure.
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There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.
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The vast majority of people who have mental illness problems never hurt anybody.
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Poker has the feeling of a sport, but you don't have to do push-ups.
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The most important part of life is work, it's the flow, it's getting stuff done, feeling like you're doing something.
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We knew that we were kind of odd and creeps, and we wanted to do odd, creepy stuff for people who wanted to see that.
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My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.
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I've been fired from a situational comedy with a script they wrote specifically for me because of my voice.
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The pure unadulterated disgust of Washington seems to me to be a really good thing.
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It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.
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I never wanted to be a magician. I never wanted to be a comedian. I never wanted to be onstage.
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Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals.
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I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.
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It's only the losers named 'Dave' that think having an unusual name is bad, and who cares what they think? They're named 'Dave.'
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As much as I disagreed with every second of 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' the fact that it is out made me jump for joy.
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For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights.
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If I were trying to avoid embarrassment, I wouldn't have stumbled my way through 'Dancing with the Stars.'
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I'm an amazing mama's boy.
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I don't want everyone to read anything; I like us all reading different books.
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The Glenn Beck Program, April 12, 2013. Edited, including omission of some non-germane remarks. YouTube
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Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around.
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The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing.
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A guy called up, and in his lead, he said, 'We've talked before. I used to be with US but now I'm for SELF.' And I was like, 'I guess we know everything now, don't we?' … I kind of laughed and I went, 'I guess a lot of people are like that.' And he paused and went, 'Uhhh… what?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing.'