Quote

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

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
Anyone
Reject
Art
Performers
Money
Rejects
Right
Paying
Entertainment
Available
Accept
Accepting

More quotes by Penn Jillette

Image
My love of computers, besides being practical, is very direct and visceral. I love the way things look on the screen.
Penn Jillette
Image
The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Penn Jillette
Image
We all have friends we love dearly that couldn't pass for human in a strict Turing test.
Penn Jillette
Image
Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You're basically saying, 'I can't make this other food taste good, so I'll throw in bacon.'
Penn Jillette
Image
If you want to talk about magic, the stuff that blows me away is the stuff that's done close up.
Penn Jillette
Image
Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.
Penn Jillette
Image
'Psycho' is fascinating philosophically, because the point of 'Psycho' is that everything that's bad happens because of love.
Penn Jillette
Image
Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.
Penn Jillette
Image
Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it goes so far beyond cool. All I can think is 12 magicians, two carnies.
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
All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.
Penn Jillette
Image
The first thing I said to myself on 9/11 was, 'There go our civil rights.' I found out by comparing notes later that George Carlin and I both said that at the exact same time. That's the first thing that popped into our head.
Penn Jillette
Image
If entertainment ran grocery stores, we'd NEVER get oil cured olives or blue cheese, it would be JUST Coke.
Penn Jillette
Image
Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.
Penn Jillette
Image
Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people
Penn Jillette
Image
Juggling is very, very straightforward very, very black and white you're manipulating objects, not people. And that's always appealed to me.
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
Trey Parker did 'Book of Mormon.' It's the best Broadway show I've ever seen. He does 'South Park.' It's wonderful.
Penn Jillette
Image
My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.
Penn Jillette
Image
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