Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Penn Jillette
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Penn Jillette
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 5
Actor
Circus Performer
Comedian
Film Actor
Film Director
Illusionist
Jongleur
Magician
Musician
Novelist
Podcaster
Radio Personality
Greenfield
Massachusetts
Penn Fraser Jillette
Really
Skills
Career
Built
Careers
Magic
Jobs
Live
Performers
Whole
Perform
More quotes by Penn Jillette
That's the beauty of the Web: You can roll around in a stranger's obsession without having to smell his or her house. You can amscray whenever you want without being rude. The site gets its hit and you know more about our species' diversity.
Penn Jillette
I am a huge fan of proselytizing. I am a huge fan of speaking your mind. The only way we can share the universe... is by talking very strongly about what we believe.
Penn Jillette
My whole family is missing that sports gene. I hope I didn't screw that up by marrying a great golfer.
Penn Jillette
I love the idea that horror and fear is a celebration of health and life.
Penn Jillette
Technology adds nothing to art.
Penn Jillette
The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art.
Penn Jillette
Poker has the feeling of a sport, but you don't have to do push-ups.
Penn Jillette
Thou shalt not take anything on faith
Penn Jillette
It seems just rude to beg the invisible for more.
Penn Jillette
Make deals with people, not paper.
Penn Jillette
If I had to imagine omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent power in the universe that chose to make my mother suffer, I don't know how I would make that make sense in the universe.
Penn Jillette
When I was a kid, politicians wanted to avoid talking about religion if they could. John F. Kennedy couldn't duck the issue, being Catholic and all. So how did he address it? By reminding Americans that religion shouldn't be an issue, that he was concentrating on big things like poverty and hunger and leading the space race.
Penn Jillette
My tolerance for crazy people is, I think, high a tolerance as you're ever going to find. I love being around David Allen Coe. I would have loved to hang out with Tiny Tim. I can listen to Sun Ra on a tape-recording rant.
Penn Jillette
If you want to turn out an atheist child, unconditional love constantly is a good way to do it.
Penn Jillette
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.
Penn Jillette
One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality. That is the subject that, if you have a brain in your head, is always dealt with in magic. The smarter the tricks you're doing, the more that' s an important thing.
Penn Jillette
If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all.
Penn Jillette
Two things have always been true about human beings. One, the world is always getting better. Two, the people living at that time think it's getting worse.
Penn Jillette
There are two things that have been true throughout history in big hunks. You can find differences in ten years, but in 50 year hunks, 100 years hunks, you'll find two things to be true. One, the world is always getting better. Two, people always think it's getting worse.
Penn Jillette
Read everything and be kind.
Penn Jillette
