Quote

A lot of people, to attack an outspoken atheist, one of the things they'll do is say, 'You are as bad as the fundamentalist Christians.' And my answer is always, 'I hope so.'

Penn Jillette

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Always
Fundamentalist
Things
Christians
People
Attack
Atheist
Answer
Answers
Hope
Christian
Outspoken

More quotes by Penn Jillette

Image
I love the idea that horror and fear is a celebration of health and life.
Penn Jillette
Image
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.
Penn Jillette
Image
Direct confrontation, direct conversation is real respect. And it's amazing how many people get that.
Penn Jillette
Image
The secret truth of 'Celebrity Apprentice' is that it isn't very hard... 'Celebrity Apprentice' is easy like junior high is easy. All the arithmetic, the creative writing and the history are super simple, but like junior high, you do that easy work surrounded by people who are full-tilt, hormone-raging bug nutty.
Penn Jillette
Image
If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.
Penn Jillette
Image
Poker would have never gotten on TV when we only had three networks.
Penn Jillette
Image
One thing you learn doing magic tricks for a living is how close every performance of every magic trick is to disaster. There are no robust magic tricks. They're all hanging from a thread - sometimes literally.
Penn Jillette
Image
Even if I disagree with Obama on many, many things, he is certainly qualified to be president. He is certainly competent to be president.
Penn Jillette
Image
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.
Penn Jillette
Image
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.
Penn Jillette
Image
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.
Penn Jillette
Image
The vast majority of people who have guns never hurt anybody.
Penn Jillette
Image
There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether you talk about gaming or 20th century classical music, you can't do it in five minutes. You can't listen to 'The Rite of Spring' once and understand what Stravinsky was all about.
Penn Jillette
Image
Freedom means the right to be stupid.
Penn Jillette
Image
If you want to turn out an atheist child, unconditional love constantly is a good way to do it.
Penn Jillette
Image
The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art.
Penn Jillette
Image
Before you can read, you know the difference between a story and reality. And, of course, by the time you're old enough to do any real damage with an Uzi, you've learned that difference.
Penn Jillette
Image
I never wanted to be a magician. I never wanted to be a comedian. I never wanted to be onstage.
Penn Jillette
Image
If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order.
Penn Jillette
Image
Technology is run by sex, because it's very important to people, both technology and sex.
Penn Jillette