Penn Jillette
Penn Jillette
Penn Fraser Jilletteis an American magician, juggler, comedian, musician, inventor, actor, and best-selling author known for his work with fellow magician Teller as half of the team Penn & Teller. He is also known for his advocacy of atheism, scientific skepticism, libertarianism and free-market capitalism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMagician
Date of Birth5 March 1955
CityGreenfield, MA
CountryUnited States of America
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The only secret of magic is that I'm willing to work harder on it than you think it's worth.
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I think it was Laurence Olivier who said that one of the things you have to accept in art is that when you put your heart into doing something there will be people who don't like it for really good reasons, really smart people who don't like what you've done for very valid reasons. That is hard to accept, that there are really valid reasons for not liking anything. The astonishing thing is that there haven't been many valid reasons for anyone not to like this movie.
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We know that the holidays are a hard time for UBS and blood (supplies) are low, so we thought it was the least we could,
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There's no job in show business that's harder than any other job outside show business.
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In all honesty, I believe we're fair, and incredibly biased. These are two different things. On our show there are no ambushes.
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It's really not good, ... I mean, when I talked to Siegfried last night, he said, you know, it was going to be OK. You have no idea what that means. It means a friend that he's loved dearly and worked with for 28 years -- his heart's still beating, and there's still hope.
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I intend to do the Penn & Teller show until they pry my cheesy magic wand from my cold dead fingers.
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I'm totally clean and sober my whole life.
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I'm totally against straight marriage - even though I'm married. I don't think heterosexual marriage is any of the government's business.
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It kind of makes me feel great, because words still have power, ... I just like how uplifting the idea is: Words are powerful.
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The reason I'm an I.B.M.-type guy today is that I really needed a laptop back in 1986, and I just couldn't wait for the Powerbook.
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And we realized it was time to do a show underwater. Magic needs a good head-soaking.
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Five years ago, I was in New York, and I saw Elvis Costello and I said, 'I look forward to seeing you in Vegas,
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very puritanical parents in western Massachusetts. If my dad stubbed his toe, you might get 'hell' out of him.