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
good magic needs realized time
And we realized it was time to do a show underwater. Magic needs a good head-soaking.
hate magic levels
I came to magic absolutely hating magic on a very, very deep level.
comedian magician wanted
I never wanted to be a magician. I never wanted to be a comedian. I never wanted to be onstage.
magic special olympics
Magic is the Special Olympics of entertainment.
blow magic done
If you want to talk about magic, the stuff that blows me away is the stuff that's done close up.
looking-good magician
All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.
cheesy magic cold
I intend to do the Penn & Teller show until they pry my cheesy magic wand from my cold dead fingers.
technology light magic
For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights.
magic sometimes disaster
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.
skills magic use
The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again.
reality differences magic
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.
art people magic
In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed.
magic disrespectful modern
Modern American magic, late 20th century magic, is tremendously disrespectful of the audience.
five jazz obsessed talking
The whole thing comes from Provenza and I talking about be-bop jazz about five years ago when I got obsessed with it, and still am,