Teller
Teller
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntertainer
Date of Birth14 February 1948
CountryUnited States of America
anyone might reasonably spending time
Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.
eyes mean open reality seems
Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn't mean it is simple.
controlled human magicians thousands
Magicians have done controlled testing in human perception for thousands of years.
becomes lets
When a magician lets you notice something on your own, his lie becomes impenetrable.
Nothing fools you better than the lie you tell yourself.
Onstage, I find absolutely nothing but exhilaration in not talking.
crap holding magicians redundant
Generally, magicians don't know what to say, so they say stupid and redundant crap like, 'Here I am holding a red ball.'
good intrinsic merely people tv
To most people who have a point of view, merely being on TV is an intrinsic good.
confront conversation forced onstage shut
The silent thing onstage allows for a kind of intimacy that no conversation can have. If I just shut up, we're forced to look at each other and really confront that moment.
In America, magic has never been an important part of peoples' lives.
america entirely hijacked people scouts
The Boy Scouts of America is no longer entirely what people think it is. Essentially, it has been hijacked by religious conservatives.
backs hairs magic penn people stuff teller
People do not come to a Penn & Teller show to see a magic show. They just don't. They come to see weird stuff that they can see no place else, that will make them laugh and make the little hairs stand up on the backs of their necks.
kids dark sides
As a kid, I was a Hitchcock lover; I cared about the dark side of things.
cameras checking might
When you go into a bar, there are hundreds and hundreds of cameras in that bar - many of them installed by that bar. They might be checking something or taking a picture of you.